Ecclesiastes 5:9
\5:10\He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
In Context
8\5:9\It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
1 Kings 4:7And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.
Psalms 104:14He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
Proverbs 13:23There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
Proverbs 28:19By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.
Ecclesiastes 6:7All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:5-9
The Obligation of a Vow. 4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. 5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? 7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.… Read the whole commentary →