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|Eclesiastés 5:9|
It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
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10
|Eclesiastés 5:10|
He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
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11
|Eclesiastés 5:11|
When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
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12
|Eclesiastés 5:12|
The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
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13
|Eclesiastés 5:13|
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
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14
|Eclesiastés 5:14|
And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
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15
|Eclesiastés 5:15|
As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
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16
|Eclesiastés 5:16|
And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?
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17
|Eclesiastés 5:17|
All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
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18
|Eclesiastés 5:18|
This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
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