“And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?”
The reiteration that all the days of one's life are spent in darkness, with much grief, sickness, and wrath, if lived in service of accumulation, presents the psychological and existential cost of wealth-seeking. The image of darkness and the enumeration of suffering—grief, sickness, anger—suggest that the pursuit of security through riches actually produces misery. This verse implies that the means contradict the end; one suffers in the process of trying to secure happiness.
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