Ecclesiastes 5:9

An advantage to a land in all respects is a king over cultivated ground.

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In The King James Version

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

In Context

8If thou seest oppression of the poor, and justice and equity perverted in a province, be not alarmed at the matter. For over the high there is a higher, who watcheth, and there is one higher than they all.

10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and he that loveth riches shall have no profit from them. This also is vanity.

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Cross References

Psalms 104:14He causeth grass to spring up for cattle, And herbage for the service of man, To bring forth food out of the earth,

Proverbs 13:23There is much food from the fallow-ground of the poor; But there is who is brought low for want of uprightness.

Proverbs 28:19He who tilleth his land shall have bread enough; And he that followeth after worthless persons shall have poverty enough.

Ecclesiastes 6:7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his desires are not 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 →

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