A Cautionary Tale | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | October 9, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I have seen a grievous evil under the sun, wealth hordered to the harm of its owners. |
| 0:06.6 | Ecclesiastes 5, verse 13. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.3 | A cautionary tale was written and read by Sheridan Voisey. |
| 0:22.6 | Ecclesiastes chapter 5 verses 13 to 20. |
| 0:26.6 | I have seen a grievous evil under the sun. |
| 0:29.6 | Wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners, or wealth lost through some misfortune, |
| 0:33.6 | so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit. |
| 0:38.7 | Everyone comes naked from their mother's womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. |
| 0:44.0 | They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands. |
| 0:48.5 | This too is a grievous evil. |
| 0:50.5 | As everyone comes, so they depart, and what do they gain, since they toil for the wind? |
| 0:55.6 | All their days they eat in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and anger. |
| 1:01.6 | This is what I have observed to be good, that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink, and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labour under the sun during the few days of life God has given them. |
| 1:13.6 | For this is their lot. |
| 1:15.6 | Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil, |
| 1:23.6 | this is a gift of God. |
| 1:25.6 | They seldom reflect on the days of their life because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart. |
| 1:33.1 | A cautionary tale. In the classic film Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane amasses wealth and power by building a newspaper empire. |
| 1:43.1 | In a story reminiscent of Ecclesiastes 2, |
| 1:45.9 | verses 4 to 11, Kane spares himself no pleasure, building a castle with grand gardens |
| 1:51.6 | full of artistic treasures. Like other tycoons, what Kane really wants is adulation. |
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