9. And there is higher authority in all of the things of the earth, but he who serves the field is king.
10. He that loves money shall not be satisfied with money; nor he that loves abundance with increase; this is also vanity.
11. When goods increase, those that eat them are increased; and what good is there to the owners thereof, except the beholding of them with their eyes?
12. The sleep of the servant is sweet whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13. There is another sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
14. which are lost by evil pursuits and to the sons which he has begotten; there is nothing left in his hand.
15. 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.
16. And this also is a sore evil; that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?
17. In addition to this, all the days of his life he shall eat in darkness, with much wrath and pain and sorrow sickness.