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Ecclesiastes states that “he that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver,” linking desire for wealth with ongoing dissatisfaction (Ecclesiastes 5:10). It also notes that as goods increase, those who consume them increase, and the rich can lose sleep from abundance and worry (Ecclesiastes 5:11–12).
10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
11When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.