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Ecclesiastes 5:8-10
New Living Translation
Ecclesiastes 5:8-10
New Living Translation
The Futility of Wealth
8 Don’t be surprised if you see a poor person being oppressed by the powerful and if justice is being miscarried throughout the land. For every official is under orders from higher up, and matters of justice get lost in red tape and bureaucracy. 9 Even the king milks the land for his own profit![a]
10 Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!
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- 5:9 The meaning of the Hebrew in verses 8 and 9 is uncertain.
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Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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