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10 Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!
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Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.
11 The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what good is wealth—except perhaps to watch it slip through your fingers!
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As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?
12 People who work hard sleep well, whether they eat little or much. But the rich seldom get a good night’s sleep.
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The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep.
13 There is another serious problem I have seen under the sun. Hoarding riches harms the saver.
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I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,
14 Money is put into risky investments that turn sour, and everything is lost. In the end, there is nothing left to pass on to one’s children.
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or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit.
15 We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can’t take our riches with us.
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Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.
16 And this, too, is a very serious problem. People leave this world no better off than when they came. All their hard work is for nothing—like working for the wind.
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This too is a grievous evil: As everyone comes, so they depart, and what do they gain, since they toil for the wind?
17 Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud—frustrated, discouraged, and angry.
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All their days they eat in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and anger.
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