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The Vanity and Peril of Riches
Ecclesiastes 5:10-17
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The lover of money never has enough money; the lover of luxury never has enough income. This too is pointless.
11
When the quantity of goods increases, so does the number of parasites consuming them; so the only advantage to the owner is that he gets to watch them do it.
12
The sleep of a working man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the overfullness of the rich won't let them sleep at all.
13
Here is a gross evil which I have seen under the sun: the owner of wealth hoards it to his own hurt.
14
Due to some misfortune, the wealth turns to loss; and then if he has fathered a son, he has nothing to leave him.
15
Just as he came from his mother's womb, so he will go back naked as he came, and for his efforts he will take nothing that he can carry away in his hand.
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This too is a gross evil, that in every respect as he came, so will he go; thus what profit does he have after toiling to earn the wind?
17
All his life he eats in darkness, in frustration, in sickness and in anger.
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