• Haggai 1:6
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 6 You have sown much seed, but you harvest little.+ You eat, but it is not to satisfaction. You drink, but you do not drink your fill. You put on clothing, but no one gets warm. The one who hires himself out puts his wages in a bag full of holes.’”

  • Haggai 1:6
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References

    • 6 YOU have sown much seed, but there is a bringing of little in.+ There is an eating, but it is not to satisfaction.+ There is a drinking, but not to the point of getting intoxicated. There is a putting on of clothes, but it is not with anyone’s getting warm; and he that is hiring himself out is hiring himself out for a bag having holes.’”+

  • Haggai 1:6
    The Bible in Living English

    • 6* You have been sowing much and bringing in little, eating but not so as to have your fill, drinking but not so as to feel the effects, dressing but not so as to be warm, and the wage-earner earning into a pocket with a hole in it.

  • Haggai 1:6
    American Standard Version

    • 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

  • Haggai 1:6
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 6 Ye have sown much but have brought in little, Have eaten and not been filled, Have drunk and not been satisfied with drink, Have clothed you and none hath been warm,—And he that hath hired himself out hath put his wages into a bag with holes.