Ecclesiastes 5:9 - The Scriptures 2009

⁹ And the increase of the land is for all. The sovereign himself is served from the field.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:9 Cross References

Psalm 115:16

The heavens are the heavens of יהוה; But He has given the earth to the children of men.

Proverbs 13:23

Much food is in the tillable ground of the poor, But lack of right-ruling sweeps it away.

Proverbs 28:19

He who tills his land is satisfied with bread, But he who pursues vanities is filled with poverty.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves silver is not satisfied with silver; nor he who loves wealth, and increase. That too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and denial of right-ruling and righteousness in a province, do not be astonished at the matter. For a higher than the high is guarding, and there are higher ones over them.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

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