12. The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep.
13. I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,
14. or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit.
15. Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.
16. This too is a grievous evil: As everyone comes, so they depart, and what do they gain, since they toil for the wind?
17. All their days they eat in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and anger.