World English Bible
Ecclesiastes 5:13
“There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 5
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.
15
As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
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