Ecclesiastes:5:8-6
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If you see the oppression of the poor ,
and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province ,
do not marvel at the matter ;
for high official watches over high official ,
and higher officials are over them .
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Moreover the profit of the land is for all ;
even the king is served from the field .
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He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver ;
Nor he who loves abundance ,
with increase .
This also is vanity .
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When goods increase ,
They increase who eat them ;
So what profit have the owners Except to see them with their eyes ?
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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 .
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There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun :
Riches kept for their owner to his hurt .
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But those riches perish through misfortune ;
When he begets a son ,
there is nothing in his hand .
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As he came from his mother '
s womb ,
naked shall he return ,
To go as he came ;
And he shall take nothing from his labor Which he may carry away in his hand .
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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 ?
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All his days he also eats in darkness ,
And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger .
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Here is what I have seen :
It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink ,
and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him ;
for it is his heritage .
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As for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth ,
and given him power to eat of it ,
to receive his heritage and rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God .
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For he will not dwell unduly on the days of his life ,
because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart .
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