Ecclesiastes 5:10

He that loveth silver The sequence of thought led the Debater from the evils of the love of money as seen in mis-government to those which are seen in the life of the individual man. The conspicuous fact was the insatiableness of that passion for money;

"Semper avarus eget; hunc nulla pecunia replet."

"The miser still is poor, no money fills his purse."

Juven. Sat. xiv. 139.

The second clause may be taken either as in the A. V. as a maxim He who clings to wealth (the word implies the luxury that accompanies wealth as in Psalms 37:16; 1 Chronicles 29:16; Isaiah 60:5), there is no fruit thereof, or as a question, Who clings to wealth? There is no fruit thereof, i. e.no real revenueor returnfor the labour of acquiring it. In this the Teacher found another illustration of his text that "all is vanity."