The miserable estate of him to whom God hath given riches, and not the grace to use them.

There is an evil, which I saw under the sun, and it is much among men:

A man to whom God hath given riches and treasures and honor, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth: but [a]God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a strange man shall eat it up: this is vanity, and this is an evil sickness.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 6:2 He showeth that it is the plague of God when the rich man hath not a liberal heart to use his riches.

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