Ecclesiastes 6:8
For what advantage hath the wise man over the fool? What advantage hath the poor, who knoweth how to walk before the living?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his desires are not satisfied.
Cross References
Psalms 116:9I shall walk before the LORD, In the land of the living.
Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walketh in darkness; yet I perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
Luke 1:6And they were both righteous in the sight of God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
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 →