Ecclesiastes 5:9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
Updated King James Version
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 unto Adam he said, Because you have hearkened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life;
1 Kings 4:7And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
Psalms 104:14He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Proverbs 13:23Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for lack of judgment.
Proverbs 28:19He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Ecclesiastes 6:7All the labour 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 →