Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the toil of a man is for his mouth; and yet is his desire never filled.

Leeser Tanakh

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 were to live a thousand years twice told, and had not seen any good— doth not every one go to one place?

8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk [properly] before the living?

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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 be the ground for thy sake; in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

Ecclesiastes 1:8All things weary themselves [constantly]; man can not utter them: the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 5:10(5:9) He that loveth money will never be satisfied with money; nor he that loveth abundance, with any increase. Also this 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 →

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