Ecclesiastes 6:10
Everything that exists has already been described. Everyone knows what people are like, and that you can't win an argument with a superior.
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11For the more words you use, the harder it is to make sense. So what's the point?
Cross References
Genesis 3:17He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.
Job 9:32For God is not a mortal being like me, I can't defend myself or take him to court.
Job 33:13Why are you fighting against him, complaining that God isn't answering your questions?
Psalms 39:6Human beings are just shadows walking around. They pointlessly rush through life, trying to pile up possessions without knowing who will get them.
Psalms 103:15Human lifetimes are like grass: we blossom like flowers in a field,
Ecclesiastes 1:10There's nothing anyone can point to and say, “Look! Here's something new.” In fact it's been around for ages, long before our time.
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 →