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Ecclesiastes 5:9

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

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  1. Ecclesiastes 5:7

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

  2. Ecclesiastes 5:8

    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.

  3. Ecclesiastes 5:10

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

  4. Ecclesiastes 5:11

    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?

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.