Ecclesiastes 5:8–15

⁸If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.

⁹And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served. ¹⁰Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity. ¹¹In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes? ¹²Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep. ¹³There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil. ¹⁴And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand! ¹⁵As he came out from the belly of his mother, naked he turneth back to go as he came, and he taketh not away anything of his labour, that doth go in his hand.