Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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In Context
8For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, that knows to walk before the living?
Cross References
Job 31:7If my step has turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot has cleaved to mine hands;
Ecclesiastes 1:2Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2:22For what has man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he has laboured under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 4:4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 6:2A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
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 →