Ecclesiastes 5:9 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

But all things considered, this is an advantage for a land: a king for a plowed field.

Higit pang mga bersyon

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

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 Mga Krus na Reperensya

Psalm 115:16

The heavens are the Lord's heavens, but the earth he has given to human beings.

Proverbs 13:23

The field of the poor may yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.

Proverbs 28:19

Anyone who tills the land will have plenty of bread, but one who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

The lover of money will not be satisfied with money; nor the lover of wealth, with gain. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and right, 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 human toil is for the mouth, yet the appetite is not satisfied.