Ecclesiastes 6:8
For what advantage has the wise man more than the fool? What has the poor man, who knows how to walk before the living?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Cross References
Genesis 17:1And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Psalms 116:9I will walk before LORD in the land of the living.
Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, going in all the commandments and righteous things of the Lord blameless.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 6:8-11
The Insatiableness of Desire. 7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. 8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. 10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he. The preacher here further shows the vanity and folly of… Read the whole commentary →