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Ecclesiastes 5

Eccl. 5:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Moreover the profit
yithrown (Hebrew #3504)
preeminence, gain
KJV usage: better, excellency(-leth), profit(-able).
Pronounce: yith-rone'
Origin: from 3498
of the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
is for all: the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
himself is served
`abad (Hebrew #5647)
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
KJV usage: X be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, + husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
by the field
sadeh (Hebrew #7704)
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat)
KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.
Pronounce: saw-deh'
Origin: or saday {saw-dah'-ee}
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Ministry on This Verse

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the profit.
Gen. 1:29‑30• 29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;
 30and to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth on the earth, in which is a living soul, every green herb for food. And it was so. (Gen. 1:29‑30)
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Gen. 3:17‑19• 17And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
 18and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
 19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:17‑19)
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Psa. 104:14‑15• 14He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,
 15And wine which gladdeneth the heart of man; making his face shine with oil; and with bread he strengtheneth man's heart. (Psa. 104:14‑15)
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Psa. 115:16• 16The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah, but the earth hath he given to the children of men. (Psa. 115:16)
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Prov. 13:23• 23Much food is in the tillage of the poor; but there is that is lost for want of judgment. (Prov. 13:23)
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Prov. 27:23‑27• 23Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks; look well to thy herds:
 24for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown endure from generation to generation?
 25The hay is removed, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered in.
 26The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of a field;
 27and there is goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and sustenance for thy maidens. (Prov. 27:23‑27)
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Prov. 28:19• 19He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless shall have poverty enough. (Prov. 28:19)
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Jer. 40:10‑12• 10And as for me, behold, I dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans, who will come unto us; and ye, gather wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities which ye have taken.
 11Likewise all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon and in Edom, and that were in all the lands, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
 12and all the Jews returned out of all the places whither they had been driven, and came to the land of Judah to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance. (Jer. 40:10‑12)
the king.
1 Sam. 8:12‑17• 12and he will take them that he may appoint for himself captains over thousands, and captains over fifties, and that they may plough his ground, and reap his harvest, and make his instruments of war and instruments of his chariots.
 13And he will take your daughters for perfumers, and cooks, and bakers.
 14And your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, the best, will he take and give to his servants.
 15And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give to his chamberlains and to his servants.
 16And he will take your bondmen, and your bondwomen, and your comeliest young men, and your asses, and use them for his work.
 17He will take the tenth of your sheep. And ye shall be his servants. (1 Sam. 8:12‑17)
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1 Kings 4:7‑23• 7And Solomon had twelve superintendents over all Israel; and they provided food for the king and his household: each man his month in the year had to make provision.
 8And these are their names: Ben-Hur, in mount Ephraim.
 9Ben-Deker in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-Beth-hanan.
 10Ben-Hesed, in Arubboth; he had Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher.
 11Ben-Abinadab had all the upland of Dor; Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife.
 12Baana the son of Ahilud had Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zaretan beneath Jizreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-Meholah, as far as beyond Jokneam.
 13Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-Gilead; he had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bars of bronze.
 14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, at Mahanaim.
 15Ahimaaz, in Nephtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon as wife.
 16Baanah the son of Hushai, in Asher and in Aloth.
 17Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar.
 18Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin.
 19Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, and of Og the king of Bashan; and he was the only superintendent that was in the land.
 20Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
 21And Solomon ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
 22And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
 23ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl. (1 Kings 4:7‑23)
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1 Chron. 27:26‑31• 26And over them that worked in the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub.
 27And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over what was in the vineyards of stores of wine was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
 28and over the olive-trees and the sycamore-trees that were in the lowland was Baal-hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash.
 29And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.
 30And over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the asses was Jehdiah the Meronothite.
 31And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagarite. All these were comptrollers of the substance which was king David's. (1 Chron. 27:26‑31)
• This {v.8} for thy comfort, if thou lookest up; but {v.9}, on the other hand, look down, and thou shalt see that which goes far to humble the highest; for even the king himself is as dependent as any on the field whence man’s food comes. (“Ecclesiastes 5” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king himself is dependent upone the field.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "enslaved to." Others understand it thus. "The profit of the land in all respects is a king addicted to agriculture."