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Ecclesiastes 5:12

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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.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 5:10

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

  2. Ecclesiastes 5:11

    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?

  3. Ecclesiastes 5:13

    There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

  4. Ecclesiastes 5:14

    But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.