Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This [is] also vanity and distress of spirit.
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Job 31:7If my step turns aside from the way, || And my heart has gone after my eyes, || And blemish has cleaved to my hands,
Ecclesiastes 1:2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities: the whole [is] vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this [is] distress of spirit;
Ecclesiastes 2:22For what has been to a man by all his labor, and by the thought of his heart that he labored at under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 4:4And I have seen all the labor, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbor. Even this [is] vanity and distress of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 6:2A man to whom God gives wealth, and riches, and honor, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desires, and God does not give him power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it; this [is] vanity, and it [is] 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 →