Ecclesiastes 5:10-17

New King James Version

¹⁰ He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;
Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.
This also is vanity.

¹¹ When goods increase,
They increase who eat them;
So what profit have the owners
Except to see them with their eyes?

¹² The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,
Whether he eats little or much;
But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.

^13 (A)There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun:
Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.
¹⁴ But those riches perish through ^[a]misfortune;
When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.
^15 (B)As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return,
To go as he came;
And he shall take nothing from his labor
Which he may carry away in his hand.

¹⁶ And this also is a severe evil—
Just exactly as he came, so shall he go.
And ^(C)what profit has he ^(D)who has labored for the wind?
¹⁷ All his days ^(E)he also eats in darkness,
And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.