Ecclesiastes 5:10

RICHES UNABLE TO SATISFY THE POSSESSOR

"He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: This also is vanity. When goods are increased, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding of them with his eyes? The sleep of the laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fullness of the rich man will not suffer him to sleep."

"He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver" (Ecclesiastes 5:10). Solomon in these lines appears to be envious of the peaceful sleep of an ordinary laboring man; and there is a confession here by the richest man of all antiquity that wealth had brought him no satisfaction, but only more responsibility, more anxiety and sleeplessness.

"They are increased that eat them" (Ecclesiastes 5:11). This, of course, is just another way of saying that, "as people make more money, their expenses also increase." It is even true in the physical sense of the human body itself. It requires much more to feed a fat man than a lean one.