King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 5:12
“The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 5
10
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity.
11
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good [is there] to the owners thereof, saving the beholding [of them] with their eyes?
12
The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13
There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
14
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.
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