Ecclesiastes 6:10
If anything has been, its name has already been called: and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is stronger than he.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
11For there are many things which increase vanity.
Cross References
Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged you of it only not to eat—of that you have eaten, cursed is the ground in your labors, in pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life.
Job 9:32For you are not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.
Job 33:13But you say, Why has he not heard every word of my cause?
Psalms 39:6+ 39:6 Heb 10:5-6 Sacrifice and offering you would not; but a body have you prepared me: whole burnt offering and sacrifice for sin you did not require. 1
Psalms 103:15and wine makes glad the heart of man, to make his face cheerful with oil: and bread strengthens man's heart. 1
Ecclesiastes 1:10Who is he that shall speak and say, Behold, this is new? it has already been in the ages that have passed before us.
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 →