Ecclesiastes 5
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Ecclesiastes 5:10-17

10He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.

11When goods increase, They increase who eat them; So what profit have the owners Except to see them with their eyes?

12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, Whether he eats little or much; But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.

13There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.

14But those riches perish through misfortune; When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.

15As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return, To go as he came; And he shall take nothing from his labor Which he may carry away in his hand.

16And this also is a severe evil— Just exactly as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

17All his days he also eats in darkness, And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.

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