Ecclesiastes 5:10–17

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?

17 All his days rhe also eats in darkness,

And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.