Ecclesiastes 5:14

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12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,
Whether he eats little or much;
But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.

13 ^aThere is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun:
Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.

14 But those riches perish through¹ misfortune;
When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.

15 ^aAs he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return,
To go as he came;
And he shall take nothing from his labor
Which he may carry away in his hand.

16 And this also is a severe evil—
Just exactly as he came, so shall he go.
And ^awhat profit has he ^bwho has labored for the wind?

17 All his days ^ahe also eats in darkness,
And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.

18 Here is what I have seen: ^aIt is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; ^bfor it is his heritage.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Ecclesiastes 5:14

Perish - By some wicked practices, either his own, or of other men. Nothing - In the son's possession after his father's death.

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