Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
In Context
6yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and enjoy no good; do not all go to one place?
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And unto Adam He said: 'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying: Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Ecclesiastes 1:8All things toil to weariness; man cannot utter it, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 5:10(5-9) He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase; this also is vanity.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 6:2-7
The Miseries of Covetousness. 1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: 2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I… Read the whole commentary →