All his days also he eateth— The first proof of the second proposition is comprized in Ecclesiastes 5:14-17 and is taken from the instability of riches. The longer one has been in possession of a plentiful fortune, the more it vexes him to see it, notwithstanding all his assiduity and care, dwindling away to nothing; and to leave his son, whom he had lived in hopes of leaving a rich heir, reduced to poverty. Yet this is a misfortune, against which no man can be certainly guarded, although he himself carries nothing away of what he has heaped up, and passes the remainder of his days, after the sinking of his fortune, in affliction, and continual repining at his present situation.
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Ecclesiastes 5:17
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.