Ecclesiastes 5:8-10

Good News Translation

Life Is Useless

⁸ Don't be surprised when you see that the government oppresses the poor and denies them justice and their rights. Every official is protected by someone higher, and both are protected by still higher officials.

⁹ Even a king depends on the harvest.^[a]

¹⁰ If you love money, you will never be satisfied; if you long to be rich, you will never get all you want. It is useless.