Ecclesiastes 5:10-14
1599 Geneva Bible
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.
12 There is an evil sickness that I have seen under the sun: to wit, riches [b]reserved to the owners thereof for their evil.
13 And these riches perish by evil travail, and he begetteth a son, and in his [c]hand is nothing.
14 (A)As he came forth of his mother’s belly, he shall return naked to go as he came, and shall bear away nothing of his labor, which he hath caused to pass by his hand.
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- Ecclesiastes 5:11 That is, his great abundance of riches, or the surfeiting, which cometh by his great feeding.
- Ecclesiastes 5:12 When covetous men heap up riches, which turn to their destruction.
- Ecclesiastes 5:13 He doth not enjoy his father’s riches.
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