When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
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Gill's Exposition
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them,.... When a man's substance increases by trade, or otherwise, very often so it is that his family increases, and he has more mouths to feed, and…
Barnes' Notes
They ... that eat them - i. e., The laborers employed, and the household servants.
Solomon had shown the vanity of pleasure, gaiety, and fine works, of honour, power, and royal dignity; and there is many a covetous worldling that will agree with him, and speak as slightly as he does…
Cambridge Bible
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them The fact is one which has met the gaze of the moralists of all countries. A large household, numerous retainers, these are but so many elements of…
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