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Ecclesiastes 6

The miserable estate of him to whom God hath given riches, and not the grace to use them.
1.There is an evil, which I saw under the sun, and it is much among men:
2.A man to whom God hath given riches and treasures and honour, and he wanteth nothing, for his soul of all that it desireth: but God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a strange man shal eat it up: this is vanity, and this is an evil sickness.
3.If a man beget an hundreth children and live many years, and the days of his years be multiplied, and his soul be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an untimely fruit is better then he.
4.For he cometh into vanity and goeth into darkness, and his name shalbe covered with darkness.
5.Also he hath not seen the sun, nor known it: therefore this hath more rest then the other.
6.And if he had lived a thousand years twice told, and had seen no good, shal not all go to one place?
7.All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soul is not filled.
8.For what hath the wise man more then the fool? what hath the poor that knoweth how to walk before the living?
9.The sight of the eye is better then to walk in the lusts: this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
10.What is that that hath been? the name thereof is now named, and it is knowen that it is man, and he can not strive with him that is stronger then he.

Notes

2-a.
He shows that it is the plague of God when the rich man has not a liberal heart to use his riches.
3-b.
If he can never have enough.
3-c.
As we see often times, that the covetous man either falls into crimes that deserve death, or is murdered or drowned or hangs himself or such like, and so lacks the honour of burial which is the last office of humanity.
4-d.
Meaning, the untimely fruit whose life did neither profit or hurt any.
7-e.
His desire and affection.
8-f.
That knows to use his goods well in the judgement of men.
9-g.
To be content with that which God has given, is better then to follow the desires that never can be satisfied.
10-h.
Meaning, God who will make him to feel that he is mortal.