The Scriptures 1998

Ecclesiastes 5:11-15 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

11. With the increase of goods, there is an increase of those consuming them. What advantage then is there to their owners, but to look on?

12. Sweet is the sleep of a labourer whether he eats little or much, but the plenty of the rich does not let him sleep.

13. There is a sickly evil I have seen under the sun: riches kept for their owner, for his evil.

14. But those riches perish through evil use. And he brings forth a son, and there is naught in his hand.

15. As he came naked from his mother’s womb, so he returns, to go as he came. And from his labour which goes into his hand he takes none whatsoever.