He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver, and he that loveth riches, shall be without the fruit thereof: this is also vanity.

10 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good cometh to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes?

11 The sleep of him that travaileth, is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the [a]satiety of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:11 That is, his great abundance of riches, or the surfeiting, which cometh by his great feeding.

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.

11 As goods increase,
    so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
    except to feast their eyes on them?

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