9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
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The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
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. …
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; …
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. …
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; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-17)Solomon had shown the vanity of pleasure, gaiety, and fine works, of honour, power, and royal dignity; and there is many a covetous worldling that will agree with him, and speak as slightly as he does of these things; but money, he thinks, is a substantial thing, and if he can but have enough of that he is happy. This is the mistake which Solomon attacks, and attempts to rectify, in these verses;…
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