Ecclesiastes 5:9 - English Standard Version 2016

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

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 115:16

The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.

Proverbs 13:23

The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.

Proverbs 28:19

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

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