Ecclesiastes 6:10
Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
World English Bible Classic
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In Context
11For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
Cross References
Genesis 3:17To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
Job 9:32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
Job 33:13Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?
Psalms 39:6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Ecclesiastes 1:10Is there a thing of which it may be said, “Behold, this is new”? It has been long ago, in the ages which were 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 →