Ecclesiastes 5:9
A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
In Context
8Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
1 Kings 4:7And Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and for his household: for every one provided necessaries, each man his month in the year.
Psalms 104:14Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:
Proverbs 13:23Much food is in the tillage of fathers: but for others it is gathered with out judgment.
Proverbs 28:19He that tilleth his ground, shall be filled with bread: but he that followeth idleness shall be filled with poverty.
Ecclesiastes 6:7All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall 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 →