Ecclesiastes 6:9
What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
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Job 31:7If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;
Ecclesiastes 1:2All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 1:17And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:22What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 4:4And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:2A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
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 →