Ecclesiastes 5:8–15

⁸If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

⁹Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king himself is dependent upon the field. ¹⁰He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity. ¹¹When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding of them with his eyes? ¹²The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep. ¹³There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt; ¹⁴or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand. ¹⁵As he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked shall he go away again as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.