Ecclesiastes 5:12-19

¹²Sleep is sweet to him that worketh, whether he eat little either much; but the fullness of a rich man suffereth not him to sleep.

¹³Also another sickness is full evil, which I saw under the sun; riches be kept into the harm of their lord.

¹⁴For they perish in the worst torment; he begat a son, that shall be in sovereign neediness.

¹⁵As he went naked out of his mother’s womb, so he shall turn again; and he shall take away with him nothing of his travail.

¹⁶Utterly it is a wretched sickness; as he came, so he shall turn again. What profiteth it to him, that he travailed into the wind?

¹⁷In all the days of his life he ate in darknesses, and in many busynesses, and in neediness, and sorrow.

¹⁸Therefore this seemed good to me, that a man eat, and drink, and use gladness of his travail, in which he travailed under the sun, in the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; and this is his part.

¹⁹And to each man, to whom God gave riches, and chattel or substance, and gave power to him to eat of those, and to use his part, and to be glad of his travail; this is the gift of God.