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Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king
himself
is served by the field.
10
He that
loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this
is
also vanity.
11
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good
is there
to
the owners thereof, saving the beholding
of them
with their eyes?
12
The sleep of a labouring man
is
sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13
There is a sore evil
which
I have seen under the sun,
namely,
riches kept for the owners thereof
to their hurt.
14
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and
there is
nothing
in his hand.
15
As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and
shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
16
And this also
is
a sore
evil,
that
in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the
wind?
17
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and
he hath
much sorrow and wrath with his
sickness.
18
Behold
that
which I have seen:
it is
good and comely
for one
to eat and to drink, and to enjoy
the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth
him: for it
is
his portion.
19
Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath
given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this
is
the gift
of God.
20
For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth
him
in the
joy of his heart.
CHAPTER 6
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it
is
common among men:
2
A man to whom
God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he
desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this
is
vanity, and it
is
an evil disease.
3
If a man beget an hundred
children,
and live many years, so that the days of his years be many,
and his soul be not filled with good, and also
that
he have no burial; I say,
that
an untimely birth
is
better than he.
4
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be
covered with darkness.
5
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known
any thing:
this hath more
rest than the other.
6
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice
told,
yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one
place?
7
All the labour of man
is
for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8
For what hath
the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
9
Better
is
the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this
is
also vanity and vexation
of spirit.
10
That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it
is
man: neither may he
contend with him that is mightier than he.
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