Ecclesiastes 6:8
For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
World English Bible Classic
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In Context
7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Cross References
Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
Psalms 116:9I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
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 →