“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?”
The observation that as goods increase, so do those who consume them, leaving the owner no advantage except the sight of them, presents another form of vanity: the multiplication of possession does not increase the owner's personal benefit. The phrase "sight of them" suggests that the satisfaction of observing wealth becomes the only real profit, a visual pleasure rather than genuine advantage. This verse implies that the owner becomes almost incidental to the accumulation; the multiplication of wealth has its own momentum.
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