“A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.”
The expansion that a stranger consumes the goods that God has given, not the person who has worked to acquire them, introduces the element of dispossession and loss. The goods, accumulated through effort, pass to another—whether through inheritance by an undeserving heir, or through theft, loss in commerce, or other mechanism. This verse reinforces earlier observations about the futility of accumulation; one cannot ensure that one's wealth benefits oneself.
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