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Ecclesiastes 5:13

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

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  1. 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?

  2. Ecclesiastes 5:12

    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.

  3. Ecclesiastes 5:14

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

  4. Ecclesiastes 5:15

    As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

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