Ecclesiastes 5:9
And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.
Young's Literal Translation
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 the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed [is] the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,
1 Kings 4:7And Solomon hath twelve officers over all Israel, and they have sustained the king and his household — a month in the year is on each one for sustenance;
Psalms 104:14Causing grass to spring up for cattle, And herb for the service of man, To bring forth bread from the earth,
Proverbs 13:23Abundance of food — the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.
Proverbs 28:19Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied [with] bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled [with] poverty.
Ecclesiastes 6:7All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the soul 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 →