7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God. |
8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they. |
9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. |
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? |
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, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. |
14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. |
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. |
16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? |
