Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his desires are not satisfied.
Noyes Bible
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 see no good, — do not all go to one place?
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:8All words become weary; man cannot express it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 5:10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and he that loveth riches shall have no profit from them. This also is vanity.
Matthew 6:25Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?
John 6:27Labor not for the food that perisheth, but for the food that endureth to everlasting life, which the Son of man giveth to you; for on him hath the Father set his seal, even God.
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 →