10. He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.This also is vanity.
11. When goods increase,They increase who eat them;So what profit have the ownersExcept to see them with their eyes?
12. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,Whether he eats little or much;But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.
13. There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun:Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.
14. But those riches perish through misfortune;When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.
15. As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return,To go as he came;And he shall take nothing from his laborWhich he may carry away in his hand.
16. And this also is a severe evil—Just exactly as he came, so shall he go.And what profit has he who has labored for the wind?