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Ecclesiastes 5:12-14
Revised Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 5:12-14
Revised Standard Version
12 Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let him sleep.
13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt, 14 and those riches were lost in a bad venture; and he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.
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