There is one alone Who has none but himself to care for. Yea, he hath neither child nor brother To whom he may leave his vast estate; yet is there no end of his labours He lives in perpetual restlessness and toil. Neither is his eye satisfied His covetous mind or desire, fitly expressed by the eye, both because the eye is frequently the incentive to this sin of covetousness, (Joshua 7:21,) and because the covetous man hath no good by his riches, save the beholding them with his eyes, as is affirmed, Ecclesiastes 5:11. Neither saith he Within himself: for he considers nothing but how he may get more and more: For whom do I labour? Having no posterity or kindred to enjoy it; and bereave my soul of good? Deny myself those comforts and conveniences which God has allowed me? Shall I take all this pains, and endure all these toils and hardships for a stranger, possibly for an enemy, who will reap the fruit of all my cares and labours? This is also vanity, yea, a sore travail A dreadful judgment and misery, as well as a great sin.
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Ecclesiastes 4:8
8 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.