Ecclesiastes 5:9
“Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.”
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Cross-References
“Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.”
“And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:”
“Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.”
“Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.”
“And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;”