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


In Context

6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

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

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

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

11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners of them, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

Ecclesiastes 5:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:9The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:9Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king himself is dependent upon the field.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.