Ecclesiastes 5:12-19

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?

¹⁷All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

¹⁸This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

¹⁹Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.