Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there are many things which increase vanity. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
In Context
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:6Arising there it proceeds southward, 1 And goes round toward the north. 1 The wind goes round and round, 1 And the wind returns to its circuits. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:3And I examined whether my heart 1 Would excite my flesh as with wine 1 (Though my heart guided me in wisdom), 1 And I desired to lay hold of mirth, 1 Until I should see of what kind is the good to the sons of men, 1 Which they should do under the sun 1 All the days of their life. 1
Ecclesiastes 4:1So I returned, 1 And saw all the oppressions 1 That were done under the sun: 1 And behold the tear of the oppressed, 1 And they had no comforter; 1 And on the side of them that oppressed them was power; 1 But they had no comforter: 1
Ecclesiastes 4:16There is no end to all the people, 1 To all who were before them: 1 And the last shall not rejoice in him: 1 For this also is vanity and waywardness of spirit. 1
Hosea 12:1Ephraim has compassed me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Judah with ungodliness: but now God knows them, and they shall be called God’s holy people.
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 →