Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of a labouring man sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

— The Restored Word Bible

Context

10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this also vanity.

11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good to the owners thereof, saving the beholding with their eyes?

12 The sleep of a labouring man sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

13 There is a sore evil I have seen under the sun, , riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and nothing in his hand.

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