Ecclesiastes 5:9

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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.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Moreover the profit^H3504 of the earth^H776 is for all: the king^H4428 himself is served^H5647 by the field^H7704.

Original Hebrew

וְיִתְרֹון אֶרֶץ בַּכֹּל [הִיא כ] (הוּא ק) מֶלֶךְ לְשָׂדֶה נֶעֱבָד׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וְ/יִתְר֥וֹן	ve./yit.Ron	H3504	HC/Ncmsc	and/ (the) profit of
אֶ֖רֶץ	'E.retz	H776	HNcbsa	a land
בַּ/כֹּ֣ל	ba./Kol	H3605	HRd/Ncmsa	(is) in (the)/ everything
[היא כ] (ה֑וּא ק)	[hûwʼ כ] (hi' ק)	H1931 כ	[HPp3fs כ] (HPp3ms ק)	(it ק)
מֶ֥לֶךְ	Me.lekh	H4428	HNcmsa	a king
לְ/שָׂדֶ֖ה	le./sa.Deh	H7704	HR/Ncmsa	to/ a field
נֶעֱבָֽד	ne.'e.Vad	H5647	HVNp3ms	he has been served

Where the Hebrew text is written one way but traditionally read another, both are shown: [written form כ] (Ketiv) and (read form ק) (Qere).

Strong's References

H776 — אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, eh'-rets): from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
H3504 — יִתְרוֹן (yithrôwn, yith-rone'): from יָתַר (yâthar) H3498; preeminence, gain; better, excellency(-leth), profit(-able).
H4428 — מֶלֶךְ (melek, meh'-lek): from מָלַךְ (mâlak) H4427; a king; king, royal.
H5647 — עָבַד (ʻâbad, aw-bad'): a primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.; [idiom] be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, [phrase] husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
H7704 — שָׂדֶה (sâdeh, saw-deh'): or שָׂדַי (sâday); from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat); country, field, ground, land, soil, [idiom] wild.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H1931 — הוּא (hûwʼ, hoo): of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא (hîyʼ); a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular; he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are; he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.
H3605 — כֹּל (kôl, kole): or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל (kôwl); from כָּלַל (kâlal) H3634; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense); (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).

Cross References

Verse Cross-References

the king — 1 Samuel 8:12-17, 1 Kings 4:7-23, 1 Chronicles 27:26-31
the profit — Genesis 1:29-30, Genesis 3:17-19, Psalms 104:14-15, Psalms 115:16, Proverbs 13:23, Proverbs 27:23-27, Proverbs 28:19, Jeremiah 40:10-12

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