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11 The more ·wealth [prosperity] people have,
    the more friends they have to ·help spend [consume] it.
So what do people really ·gain [profit]?
    They ·gain [profit] nothing except to ·look at their riches [admire it].
12 ·Those who work hard sleep in peace [L Sweet is the sleep of the laborer];
    it is not important if they eat little or much.
But ·rich people worry about their wealth
    and cannot [L the abundance of the wealthy does not let them] sleep.

13 ·I have seen real misery here [L There is a sickening evil I have seen] ·on earth [L under the sun; 1:3]:
·Money [Wealth] ·saved is a curse to [is hoarded to the harm of] its owners.

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