Skip to main content

Ecclesiastes 5:9

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

KJV

Avarus non implebitur pecunia, et qui amat divitias fructum non capiet ex eis ; et hoc ergo vanitas.

Vulgate

ἀγαπῶν ἀργύριον οὐ πλησθήσεται ἀργυρίου· καὶ τίς ἠγάπησεν ἐν πλήθει αὐτῶν γένημα; καί γε τοῦτο ματαιότης.

LXX

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

ASV

אֹהֵ֥ב כֶּ֨סֶף֙ לֹא יִשְׂבַּ֣ע כֶּ֔סֶף וּ/מִֽי אֹהֵ֥ב בֶּ/הָמ֖וֹן לֹ֣א תְבוּאָ֑ה גַּם זֶ֖ה הָֽבֶל

Hebrew

Open in reader with connections →

In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֹהֵ֣ב
'hb
verb · 209×
גַּם
gm
adverb · 764×
הֲמ֥וֹן
hmvn
noun · 83×
הָֽבֶל
hbl
noun · 73×
הּ
h
noun · 43×
זֶּֽה
zh
pronoun · 1173×
יִֽשְׂבַּֽע
yshb'
verb · 96×
כֶּ֣סֶף
ksp
noun · 402×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 4:7 — And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
  • Gen 1:29 — And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
  • Gen 3:23 — Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
  • Prov 13:23 — Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
  • Ps 104:14 — He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
  • Ps 115:16 — The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.