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Ecclesiastes 5:9-11
Revised Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 5:9-11
Revised Standard Version
9 But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.[a]
10 He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
11 When goods increase, they increase who eat them; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
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- Ecclesiastes 5:9 Or The profit of the land is among all of them; a cultivated field has a king
Ecclesiastes 5:9-11
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 5:9-11
New International Version
9 The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
10 Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
11 As goods increase,
so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them?
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