Ecclesiastes 5:9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
World English Bible Classic
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 3:17To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
1 Kings 4:7Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
Psalms 104:14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:
Proverbs 13:23An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
Proverbs 28:19One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
Ecclesiastes 6:7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not 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 →