Ecclesiastes 5
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Ecclesiastes 5:10-17

10He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its gain. This too is vanity (emptiness).

11When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what advantage is there to their owners except to see them with their eyes?

12The sleep of a working man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach (greed) of the rich [who hungers for even more] will not let him sleep.

13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being kept and hoarded by their owner to his own misery.

14For when those riches are lost in bad investments and he becomes the father of a son, then there is nothing in his hand [for the support of the child].

15As he came naked from his mother’s womb, so he will return as he came; and he will take away nothing from all his labor that he can carry in his hand.

16This also is a grievous evil—exactly as he was born, so he shall die. So what advantage has he who labors for the wind?

17All of his life he also eats in darkness [cheerlessly, without sweetness and light], with great frustration, sickness, and anger.

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