Ecclesiastes 5:9
The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
BSB
ASV
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
KJV
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all,.... Or, "the excellency of the earth in" or "above all things is this" (y); that God most high rules over all the earth, and is higher than the kings of it, and all oppressors in it; or in all respects there is a preference, a superior excellency in the country as opposed to the city, especially in this, that there are not so many tumults, riots, and oppressions there; though this is mostly understood of the preference and superior excellency of agriculture, or tillage of the earth.
The king himself is served by the field - Rather, the king is subject to the field, i. e., is dependent on its cultivation. The higher ranks, if they oppress the lower, lose thereby their own means of subsistence.
"The profit (produce) of the earth is (ordained) for (the common good of) all: even the king himself is served by (the fruits of) the field" (2Ch 26:10).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 115:16The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
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You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:
The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature…
By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Through
Proverbs 13:23Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor, but without justice it is swept away.
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The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
