The Vanity of Gain and Honor
Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.
This also is vanity.
They increase who eat them;
So what profit have the owners
Except to see them with their eyes?
Whether he eats little or much;
But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.
To go as he came;
And he shall take nothing from his labor
Which he may carry away in his hand.
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Ecclesiastes 5:9
The profit of the earth is for all - The earth, if properly cultivated, is capable of producing food for every living creature; and without cultivation none has a right to expect bread.
The king himself is served by the field - Without the field he cannot have supplies for his own house; and, unless agriculture flourish, the necessary expenses of the state cannot be defrayed. Thus, God joins the head and feet together; for while the peasant is protected by the king as executor of the laws, the king himself is dependent on the peasant; as the wealth of the nation is the fruit of the laborer' s toil.
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