Ecclesiastes:5:8-6

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* If you see the oppression of the poor , and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province , do not marvel at the matter . For He [who is ] higher than the highest watches ; and there are some higher than they . * And the advantage of a land , it is for all ; [even ] a king has a field being tilled . * He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver , and he who loves abundance not with ] gain . This [is ] also vanity . * When the good thing increases , those who eat it increase ; then what profit [is it ] to its owners , except to see [it ] with their eyes ? * The sleep of a laboring man [is ] sweet , whether he eats little or much ; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep . * There is a sore evil [which ] I have seen under the sun , namely , riches kept for their owners to their hurt . * But those riches perish by evil use . And he brings forth a son , and nothing [is ] in his hand . * As he came forth from his mother 's womb naked , he shall return to go as he came . And from his labor he may not carry anything that may go in his hand . * And this also [is ] a sore evil , [that ] in all , as he came , so shall he go ; and what profit does he have who has labored for the wind ? * Also all his days he eats in darkness , and he has much sorrow and wrath [with ] his sickness . * Behold that which I have seen . [it is ] good and right for one to eat and to drink , and to see good in all his labor that he labors under the sun all the days of his life , which God gives him ; for it [is ] his portion . * Also every man to whom God has given riches and wealth , and has given him power to eat of it and to take his portion , and to rejoice in his labor ; this [is ] the gift of God . * For he shall not much remember the days of his life , because God answers [him ] in the joy of his heart .

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