Ecclesiastes:5:8-6
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If thou seest the oppression of the poor ,
and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province ,
marvel not at the matter :
for he that is higher than the highest regardeth ;
and there be higher than they .
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Moreover the profit of the earth is for all :
the king himself is served by the field .
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He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver ;
nor he that loveth abundance with increase :
this is also vanity .
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When goods increase ,
they are increased that eat them :
and what good is there to the owners thereof ,
saving the beholding of them with their eyes ?
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The sleep of a labouring man is sweet ,
whether he eat little or much :
but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep .
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There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun ,
namely ,
riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt .
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But those riches perish by evil travail :
and he begetteth a son ,
and there is nothing in his hand .
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As he came forth of his mother '
s womb ,
naked shall he return to go as he came ,
and shall take nothing of his labour ,
which he may carry away in his hand .
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And this also is a sore evil ,
that in all points as he came ,
so shall he go :
and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind ?
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All his days also he eateth in darkness ,
and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness .
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Behold that which I have seen :
it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink ,
and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life ,
which God giveth him :
for it is his portion .
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Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth ,
and hath given him power to eat thereof ,
and to take his portion ,
and to rejoice in his labour ;
this is the gift of God .
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For he shall not much remember the days of his life ;
because God answereth him in the joy of his heart .
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