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Ecclesiastes 5:10-20

<p><b>10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?</b>

12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, <b>riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.</b>

14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

<b>15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.</b>

16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and <b>what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?</b>

17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

18 ¶Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to <b>enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion. * *

19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.</b>

<b>20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart. *</b></p>