Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labor of a man is for his mouth, 1 And yet the appetite shall not be satisfied. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

In Context

6Though he has lived to the return of a thousand years, 1 Yet he has seen no good: 1 Do not all go to one place? 1

8For what advantage has the wise man over the fool, 1 Since even the poor knows how to walk in the direction of life? 1

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Cross References

Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat—of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labors, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

Ecclesiastes 1:8All things are full of labor; 1 A man will not be able to speak of them: 1 Neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing, 1 Neither shall the ear be filled with hearing. 1

Ecclesiastes 5:10In the multitude of good they are increased that eat it: 1 And what virtue has the owner, 1 But the right of beholding it with his eyes? 1

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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