9 The covetous are never satisfied with money, nor lovers of wealth with their gain; so this too is vanity.
10 Where there are great riches, there are also many to devour them. Of what use are they to the owner except as a feast for the eyes alone?
11 Sleep is sweet to the laborer, whether there is little or much to eat; but the abundance of the rich allows them no sleep.
12 This is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches hoarded by their owners to their own hurt.
13 Should the riches be lost through some misfortune, they may have offspring when they have no means.
14 As they came forth from their mother’s womb, so again shall they return, naked as they came, having nothing from their toil to bring with them.
15 This too is a grievous evil, that they go just as they came. What then does it profit them to toil for the wind?