Ecclesiastes 5:9
He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: 1 And who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof? 1 This is also vanity. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
In Context
8Also the abundance of the earth is for everyone: 1 The king is dependent on the tilled field. 1
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat—of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labors, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
1 Kings 4:7And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, to provide for the king and his household; each one’s turn came to supply for a month in the year.
Psalms 104:14He suffered no man to wrong them; 1 And he rebuked kings for their sakes: 1
Proverbs 13:23The righteous shall spend many years in wealth: 1 But the unrighteous shall perish suddenly. 1
Proverbs 28:19He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread: 1 But he that follows idleness shall have plenty of poverty. 1
Ecclesiastes 6:7All the labor of a man is for his mouth, 1 And yet the appetite shall not be satisfied. 1
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 →