Ecclesiastes 5:13 meaning and explanation
There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
Ecclesiastes 5:13, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the Teacher, the wisdom figure whose voice runs through Ecclesiastes, and he is summing up what he has observed in life "under the sun," his phrase for the world as it normally runs. Here he names a "grievous evil," a sharp word for something painful and wrong, not merely puzzling.
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