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12 Sweet is the sleep of a working man,
    whether he eats a little or a lot,
but the excess wealth of the rich
    will not allow him to rest.

13 I have observed a painful tragedy on earth:

Wealth hoarded by its owner harms him,
14 and that wealth is lost in troubled circumstances.
Then a son is born,
    but there is nothing left for him.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:14 Lit. nothing in his hand