Ecclesiastes 6:9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁹ The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Better is the sight of the eyes [the enjoyment of what is available to one] than the cravings of wandering desire. This is also vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility) and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Common English Bible

⁹ It’s better to enjoy what’s at hand than to have an insatiable appetite. This too is pointless, just wind chasing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ It is better to see what you desire, than to desire what you cannot know. But this, too, is emptiness and a presumption of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 6:9 Referencias Cruzadas

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.

Job 31:7

2 It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Before the silver cord be broken, and the golden fillet shrink back, and the pitcher be crushed at the fountain, and the wheel be broken upon the cistern,

Ecclesiastes 6:2

Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:

Ecclesiastes 4:4

1 And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed?

Ecclesiastes 2:11

8 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,

Ecclesiastes 1:2

What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.

Jeremiah 2:20

8 Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them arise and deliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,