Even if he should gather silver as dust, and prepare gold as clay,

all these things shall the righteous gain, and the true-hearted shall possess His wealth.

Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain; he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth-

or the price for the redemption of his soul, though he labor forever,

When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers.

And man being in honor, understands not; he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is likened unto them.

A good man shall inherit children's children, and the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just.

He that increases his wealth by usury and [unjust] gains, gathers it for him that pities the poor.

And I hated all of my labor which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

And who knows whether he will be wise, or a fool? And whether he will have power over all my labor in which I labored, and in which I grew wise under the sun? This is also vanity.

But God said to him, ['You] fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?'

So Carshena, Shethar, and Malisear, the princes of the Persians and Medes, who were near the king, who sat chief [in rank] by the king, drew near to him,

And he had a foster child, daughter of Aminadab his father's brother, and her name [was] Esther. And when her parents were dead, he brought her up for a wife for himself. And the woman was beautiful.

And when the time was fulfilled for Esther, the daughter of Aminadab, the brother of Mordecai's father to go in to the king, she neglected nothing which the eunuch, the women's keeper, commanded; for Esther found grace in the sight of all that looked upon her.