Ecclesiastes 5:9
A greedy man will not be satisfied by money. And whoever loves wealth will reap no fruit from it. Therefore, this, too, is emptiness.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
In Context
8But finally, there is the King who rules over the entire earth, which is subject to him.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17Yet truly, to Adam, he said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, from which I instructed you that you should not eat, cursed is the land that you work. In hardship shall you eat from it, all the days of your life.
1 Kings 4:7And Solomon had twelve commanders over all of Israel, who offered yearly provisions for the king and his house. For each was ministering the necessities, by each month of the year.
Psalms 104:14he allowed no man to harm them, and he reproved kings on their behalf.
Proverbs 13:23Much nourishment is in the fallow land of the fathers. But for others, it is gathered without judgment.
Proverbs 28:19Whoever works his land shall be satisfied with bread. But whoever pursues leisure will be filled with need.
Ecclesiastes 6:7Every labor of man is for his mouth, but his soul will not be filled.
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 →