Ecclesiastes 5:10–20

^10aHe who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its produce. This too is ¹vanity.

^11aWhen good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the success to their masters except to look on with their eyes?

¹²The sleep of the laboring man is ^asweet, whether he eats little or much; but the satisfaction of the rich man does not ¹allow him to sleep.

¹³There is a sickening evil which I have seen under the sun: ^ariches being ¹hoarded by their master to his own evil demise.

¹⁴And those riches were lost through a bad endeavor; and he became the father of a son, but there was nothing in his hand for him.

^15aAs he had come naked from his mother’s womb, so will he return as he came. He will ^bcarry nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can bring in his hand.

¹⁶This also is a sickening evil—exactly as a man came, so will he go. So ^awhat is the advantage to him who ^blabors for the wind?

¹⁷Also, all his days ^ahe eats in darkness with ^bmuch vexation, and his sickness and anger.

¹⁸Here is what I have seen to be ^agood, which is ¹beautiful: to eat, to drink, and to see good in all one’s labor in which he labors under the sun during the few days of his life which God has given him; for this is his ^bportion.

¹⁹Furthermore, as for every man to whom ^aGod has given riches and wealth, He has also ^bempowered him to eat from them and to take up his portion and be glad in his labor; this is the ^cgift of God.

²⁰For he will not remember much the days of his life because ^aGod allows ¹him to occupy himself with the gladness of his heart.