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Ecclesiastes 5:8-10
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Ecclesiastes 5:8-10
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
8 If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them. 9 But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.[a]
10 He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
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- Ecclesiastes 5:9 Or The profit of the land is among all of them; a cultivated field has a king
Ecclesiastes 5:8-10
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 5:8-10
New International Version
Riches Are Meaningless
8 If you see the poor oppressed(A) in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still. 9 The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
10 Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
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