⁶ You have sown much but have harvested little. You have eaten without being satisfied; you have drunk without being satiated;^[a] you have worn clothes without being warm; the one who earns wages puts it in a pouch with holes.’^[b]

⁹ ‘You have looked for much, and look! It came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?’ declares^[a] Yahweh of hosts. ‘Because my house is desolate and you are running each to your own house!