“He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.”
The principle that the lover of money never has enough, and the lover of wealth never has return, establishes that acquisitiveness represents an inherent form of vanity—a desire that, by its nature, cannot be satisfied. The endless hunger for more money, the always-inadequate wealth accumulated, suggests that the pursuit of material security works against its own goal. This verse implies that those who bind their happiness to accumulation necessarily suffer; the structure of the pursuit guarantees dissatisfaction.
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