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Ecclesiastes 5:9-11
New Living Translation
Ecclesiastes 5:9-11
New Living Translation
9 Even the king milks the land for his own profit![a]
10 Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness! 11 The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what good is wealth—except perhaps to watch it slip through your fingers!
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- 5:9 The meaning of the Hebrew in verses 8 and 9 is uncertain.
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Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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