chapter 5 verse 11 Sweet is the sleep of…

chapter 5 verse 11 Sweet is the sleep of the worker whether he eats little or much. Well the society of the wealthy does not let him sleep. What he's trying to say here is that the rich person has a lack of satisfaction because he's always worried about as well and losing it whereas by contrast the common worker feels blessed by his daily labor because he satisfied with what he has .

— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Ecclesiastes by King Solomon

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He admitted the part we least want to hear — that the race is not always won by the swift, nor the battle by the strong, nor bread by the wise, for time and chance happen to them all, and that in the end the same fate befalls everyone alike, the righteous and the wicked together. He had watched good people perish in their goodness and bad ones prosper for years; he watched a man labor his whole life only to hand the results to a successor he never chose, and caught the smaller daily ironies too — that the laborer sleeps sweetly whether he eats little or much, while the very abundance of the rich man will not let him rest. Even the wisdom we inherit was carried down out of chaos, each generation's teaching first set down in the turbulence of its own age. — Takeoff Into Chaos

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