Ecclesiastes 5:10-16

Thomson(i) 10 A lover of silver cannot be satisfied with silver; but did any one ever love what the abundance of this produceth? Surely this is vanity. 11 By an abundance of wealth they who consume it are multiplied. And what is the mighty advantage of the owner from it? That he hath the first sight of it with his eyes? 12 The sleep of the slave is sweet whether he eateth little or much. But the fulness of the rich suffereth him not to sleep. 13 There is a weakness which I have seen under the sun: riches kept by one for his descendant to his own hurt. 14 Yet these riches acquired with grievous vexation shall perish, and he hath begotten a son, and there is nothing in his hand. 15 As he came naked out of his mother's womb, he shall turn about and go as he came. He shall take nothing by his labour to go with him in his hand. 16 Surely this a grievous weakness; for as he came, so he must depart. What then is his lasting advantage, for which he laboureth in vain;