Ecclesiastes 5:10–16

10 He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;

Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.

This also is vanity.

11 When goods increase,

They increase who eat them;

So what profit have the owners

Except to see them with their eyes?

12 The 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.

13 nThere is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun:

Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.

14 But those riches perish through 3misfortune;

When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.

15 oAs 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.

16 And this also is a severe evil—

Just exactly as he came, so shall he go.

And pwhat profit has he qwho has labored for the wind?