8. 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.
9. Moreover the profit of the land is for all; even the king is served from the field.
10. He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.This also is vanity.
11. When goods increase,They increase who eat them;So what profit have the ownersExcept to see them with their eyes?
12. 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.
13. There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun:Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.
14. But those riches perish through misfortune;When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.