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12 This is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches hoarded by their owners to their own hurt.

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12 Workers may or may not have enough to eat, but at least they can get a good night's sleep. The rich, however, have so much that they stay awake worrying.

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12 Sweet is the sleep of laborers, whether they eat little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let them sleep.

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12 The sleep of the laborer is (A)sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the [a]full stomach of the rich person does not allow him to sleep.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:12 Lit satiety

12 The sleep of a laborer is sweet,
    whether they eat little or much,
but as for the rich, their abundance
    permits them no sleep.(A)

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