Ecclesiastes 5:10-17 (Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha)
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He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
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When goods increase, they increase who eat them; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
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Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let him sleep.
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There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,
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and those riches were lost in a bad venture; and he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.
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As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil, which he may carry away in his hand.
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This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he that he toiled for the wind,
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and spent all his days in darkness and grief, in much vexation and sickness and resentment?
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha)
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