Ecclesiastes 5:7-13

⁷For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear thou God.

⁸If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.

⁹Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

¹⁰He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

¹¹When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding of them with his eyes?

¹²The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

¹³There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt: