World English Bible
Ecclesiastes 5:12
“The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 5
10
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
11
When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
12
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
14
Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
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