10. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
11. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding of them with his eyes?
12. The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.
13. There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
14. or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
15. As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go away again as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
16. And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?
17. All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.
18. Behold what I have seen good and comely: it is to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith man laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.
19. Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God