Ecclesiastes 5:10-16

¹⁰He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.

¹¹When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

¹²The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

¹³There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun — wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

¹⁴And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

¹⁵As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

¹⁶And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?