11. Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat lttle or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
12. There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.
13. For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.
14. As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.
15. A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?
16. All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.
17. This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion.
18. And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.
19. For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight,