8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for the high official is watched by a higher one ; and there are yet higher ones over them.
9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served from the field.
10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.
11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: so what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?
12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
13 There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by their owners to their hurt.
14 But those riches are lost by a bad venture: when he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.