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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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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:9 Or The profit of the land is among all of them; a cultivated field has a king

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