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Ecclesiastes 5:13-18 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

13. There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt.

14. When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him.

15. As he had come naked from his mother's womb, so will he return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.

16. This also is a grievous evil-exactly as a man is born, thus will he die. So what is the advantage to him who toils for the wind?

17. Throughout his life he also eats in darkness with great vexation, sickness and anger.

18. Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one's labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.

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