Devine Scripture

Ecclesiastes 6:7

Ecclesiastes chapter 6 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Context

v.6yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

v.7This passage

v.8For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:10

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

  • Genesis 3:17

    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 toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

  • John 6:27

    Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.

  • 1 Timothy 6:6

    But godliness with contentment is great gain:

  • Ecclesiastes 6:3

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

  • Matthew 6:25

    Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious 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 the food, and the body than the raiment?