Ecclesiastes 5:14
King James VersionSource notes
“But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and nothing in his hand.”
Context
11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good to the owners thereof, saving the beholding with their eyes?
12The sleep of a labouring man sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13There is a sore evil I have seen under the sun, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and nothing in his hand.
15As 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.
16And this also a sore evil, in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.