What does Ecclesiastes 5:11 mean?

Ecclesiastes 5:11 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Ecclesiastes 5:11 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

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