Ecclesiastes 5:11 says, When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eye.  I believe Solomon was again saying that the benefit of increased goods was not to hoard them but to share them.  We as followers of Christ should be looking for ways to help others and not ways to hoard for ourselves.  Jesus said that it is more blessed to give than to receive, but we often prefer receiving.  When God's people become more materialistic than spirit led, the world is indeed in a sad state.  We tend to moan the lack instead of celebrating the things we do have.  Verse twelve says, The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.  When a people work and do their best, they sleep at night.  Those who live for riches worry about how to keep what they have and how to gain more.  They tend to think it is all their doing without thanking God and sharing with others.  We can become like the rich man Jesus referred to who wondered how he would keep the increased harvest, thinking only of himself.  This is not some worldly economic plan, but what God's word teaches.  We are not to envy the rich and despise the poor, but we are to do all that we can to help those less fortunate.  We seem to think the answer is to give more to the rich so they might decide to help the poor, but they seldom do.  God does not value one person more than another because of their wealth, or their lack of it.  It all belongs to God anyway.  The only thing of lasting value that we can do is to follow His will.  Verse thirteen continues with, There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.  Solomon said hoarding riches was a sore evil that led the owners to hurt.  It first hurts them in the eyes of God, because they live selfish lives, using most of their wealth on themselves instead of helping others.  They hurt themselves by being consumed by their wealth.  Wealth becomes first in their lives instead of God and helping those less fortunate.  We, as followers of Christ, must guard against this attitude, and never let material things come first in our lives, always remembering that it all belongs to God.