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If you see the oppression of the poor, or the removing of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be amazed at the purpose. For a high one over a high one is watching; and high ones are over them.

And the advantage of a land, it is among all; even a king has a field being tilled.

He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; and he who loves abundance does not gain. This is also vanity.

When the good thing increases, those who devour it increase; then what profit is it to its owners, except to see it with his eyes?

The sleep of the laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much. But the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

There is a painful evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being kept for their owner to his evil;

but those riches perish by an evil use; and he fathers a son, and nothing is in his hand.

As he came forth from his mother's womb naked, he shall return to go as he came. And from his labor he may not carry anything that may go in his hand.

And this also is a painful evil, that in all, as he came, so shall he go. And what profit is to him who has labored for the wind?

Also all his days he eats in darkness, and with much grief, along with his sickness and wrath.

See what I have seen: It is good which a laborer does to eat and to drink and to see good in all his labor which as a laborer does under the sun, the number of the days of his life which God gives to him, for it is his portion.

Also every man to whom God has given riches and treasures, and gives him power to eat of it, and to take his share, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God answers him in the joy of his heart.