The Vanity and Peril of Riches

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He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

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When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding of them with his eyes?

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The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

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There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

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and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

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As he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

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And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?

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All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

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