Ecclesiastes 6:9
“Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.”
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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.
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Cross-References
“I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”
“I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.”
“I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”
“And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,”
“Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.”