8. If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for the high official is watched by a higher one ; and there are yet higher ones over them.
9. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served from the field.
10. He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.
11. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: so what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?