Haggai 1:5-6 MSG

5-6 And then a little later, God-of-the-Angel-Armies spoke out again:“Take a good, hard look at your life.Think it over.You have spent a lot of money,but you haven’t much to show for it.You keep filling your plates,but you never get filled up.You keep drinking and drinking and drinking,but you’re always thirsty.You put on layer after layer of clothes,but you can’t get warm.And the people who work for you,what are they getting out of it?Not much—a leaky, rusted-out bucket, that’s what.

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