Verse 11

⁶With his heart rooted deep in himself, in his wife, his sons, his house, his cattle, his wealth and his kinsmen, he thinks a great deal of himself. ⁷Every limb of him burning with the anxiety of keeping them all, the fool with the ruined mind does one wrong thing after another and never stops. ⁸His self and his senses are carried off by the wiles of faithless women, got up in private, and by the talk of small children with their pretty babble. ⁹Tireless in a household whose duties are counterfeit and whose whole frame is sorrow, the householder works at staving off that sorrow and takes the staving off for happiness.

¹⁰With wealth got by heavy harm done here and there, he feeds them; and by the feeding of them he goes down himself, eating what is left over. ¹¹His livelihood failing and being started up again and again, overcome by greed and with no strength left in him, he begins to want what belongs to another.