Ecclesiastes 5:12DRA

Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 12 of 20

"The sleep of a labouring man sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep."
Ecclesiastes 5:12

In context

10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this also vanity.

11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good to the owners thereof, saving the beholding with their eyes?

12The sleep of a labouring man sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

13There is a sore evil I have seen under the sun, , riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and nothing in his hand.

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