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Read Full Chapter (Ecclesiastes 5) Ecclesiastes 5:11 KJV
"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?"
Ecclesiastes Chapter 5, Verse 11
Ecclesiastes 5:11 in Context (Verses 8–14 KJV)
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¶ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.*
9
¶ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
10
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
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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.
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There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
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But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.