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.
There is one (alone) and (there is) not a second - no partner. He might have one, but it is the nemesis of his greatness that he has not. He stands alone in the world, without object for his avarice, and without friend to break his dreary isolation.
Child - `son or brother,' put for any heir (Deuteronomy 25:5; Deuteronomy 25:10).
Neither is his eye satisfied - (Ecclesiastes 1:8.) The miser would not be able to give an account of his infatuation.