Ecclesiastes 5:9
The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
1 Kings 4:7Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,
Psalms 104:14He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
Proverbs 13:23Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
Proverbs 28:19The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
Ecclesiastes 6:7All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.
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 →