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Ecclesiastes 5:6-11 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

6. Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God.

7. If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

8. Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.

9. A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.

10. Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?

11. Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat lttle or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

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