The Foolishness of Riches
10 One who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor one who loves abundance with its income. This too is futility. 11 When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to 5:11 Lit see with their eyeslook at them?12 The sleep of the laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the 5:12 Lit satietyfull stomach of the rich person does not allow him to sleep.
13 There is a sickening evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth being 5:13 Lit guardedhoarded by its owner to his detriment. 14 When that wealth was lost through bad business and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing 5:14 Lit in his handto support him. 15 As he came naked from his mother’s womb, so he will return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.