OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 5:13

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There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

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Verse 13. Affliction. Hebrew “by an evil affair,” or accident. Calmet.—Who. Hebrew “and there is nothing in his hand.” Bible.—As temporal riches prove detrimental to their owners, so do false philosophy and heresy to those who follow them. Saint Jerome Worthington.

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