Ecclesiastes:5:8-6
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If you see the oppression of the poor ,
or the removing of justice and righteousness in the province ,
do not be amazed at the purpose .
For a high one over a high one is watching ;
and high ones are over them .
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And the advantage of a land ,
it is among all ;
even a king has a field being tilled .
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He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver ;
and he who loves abundance does not gain .
This is also vanity .
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When the good thing increases ,
those who devour it increase ;
then what profit is it to its owners ,
except to see it with his eyes ?
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The sleep of the laboring man is sweet ,
whether he eats little or much .
But the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep .
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There is a painful evil which I have seen under the sun :
riches being kept for their owner to his evil ;
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but those riches perish by an evil use ;
and he fathers a son ,
and nothing is in his hand .
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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 .
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And this also is a painful evil ,
that in all ,
as he came ,
so shall he go .
And what profit is to him who has labored for the wind ?
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Also all his days he eats in darkness ,
and with much grief ,
along with his sickness and wrath .
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See what I have seen :
It is good and beautiful to eat and to drink and to see good in all his labor that he labors under the sun ,
the number of the days of his life which God gives to him ,
for it is his portion .
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Also every man to whom God has given riches and treasures ,
and gives him power to eat of it ,
and to take his share ,
and to rejoice in his labor ;
this is the gift of God .
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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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