King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 5:14
“But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.”
Verse in context — 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.
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.
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 hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
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