[Ecc 5:8-17 KJV] 8 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.
I guess it has always been this way.
9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.
Across mankind, needs are the same.
10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity.
Material things do not satisfy our deepest longings.
11 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?
There is no use in storing things up.
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.
With more responsibilities comes more worry...better to have just the bare necessities.
13 There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
The rich are not benefited by their abundance, in fact it stands in their way in developing needed character traits.
14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.
And riches do not last.
15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
When the rich die, they can take nothing of what they accumulated.
16 And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
And in the end, what will it have mattered.
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Our ends are the same, rich or poor.
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