The Vanity and Peril of Riches

Ecclesiastes 5:10-17

Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity.

In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!

As 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.

And this also is a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage is to him who laboureth for wind?

Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

The Vanity and Peril of Riches

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