"All the labour of man {is} for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. {appetite: Heb. soul}" — Ecclesiastes 6:7

Ecclesiastes 6:7 · KJV

“All the labour of man {is} for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. {appetite: Heb. soul}”

— Ecclesiastes 6:7

Verse 6

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice {told}, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

Verse 8

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 6 — Context

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known {any thing}: this hath more rest than the other.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice {told}, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

All the labour of man {is} for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. {appetite: Heb. soul}

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. {than...: Heb. than the walking of the soul}

Cross References

John 6:27

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. {Labour not: or, Work not}

Proverbs 16:26

He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him. {He...: Heb. The soul of him that} {craveth...: Heb. boweth unto him}

1 Timothy 6:6-8

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, {and} be merry.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this {is} also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man beget an hundred {children}, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also {that} he have no burial; I say, {that} an untimely birth {is} better than he.

Genesis 3:17-19

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed {is} the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat {of} it all the days of thy life;