7If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
8It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
9He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
10When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
11The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
12There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
13And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
