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Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?(Ecclesiastes 5:6)
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.(Ecclesiastes 5:7)
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.(Ecclesiastes 5:8)
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.(Ecclesiastes 5:10)
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?(Ecclesiastes 5:11)
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.(Ecclesiastes 5:12)

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Ecclesiastes 5:9 - Cross Reference

Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment. (Proverbs 13:23)
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough. (Proverbs 28:19)
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. (Genesis 1:29)
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men. (Psalm 115:16)
As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken. (Jeremiah 40:10)
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; (Genesis 3:17)
And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. (1 Kings 4:7)
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. (Proverbs 27:23)
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; (Psalm 104:14)
And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. (1 Samuel 8:12)
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub: (1 Chronicles 27:26)