Ecclesiastes 5:9 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all; the king himself is served by the field and in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

Common English Bible

⁹ But the land’s yield should be for everyone if the field is cultivated.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ A greedy man will not be satisfied by money. And whoever loves wealth will reap no fruit from it. Therefore, this, too, is emptiness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.

English Standard Version 2016

⁹ But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.

Ecclesiastes 5:9 Cross References

Psalm 115:16

The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: But the earth hath he given to the children of men.

Proverbs 13:23

Much food is in the tillage of the poor: But there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

Proverbs 28:19

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: But he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.