If my step does turn from the way, or my heart has gone after my eyes, or if any spot has clung to my hands,
Ecclesiastes 6:9 - The Scriptures 2009 What the eyes see is better than what the desire goes after. That too is futile and feeding on wind. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
If my step does turn from the way, or my heart has gone after my eyes, or if any spot has clung to my hands,
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun. And see, all was futile and feeding on wind.
And I set my heart to know wisdom – and to know madness and folly. I know that this too is feeding on wind.
“Futility! Futility!” says Qoheleth. “Futility, futility, all is futile!”
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart gladden you in the days of your youth. And walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these Elohim brings you into right-ruling.
But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.
And I saw that all the toil and skill of the work bring envy between man and his neighbour. That too is futile and feeding on wind.
See what I have seen: It is good and beautiful for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which Elohim gives him, for it is his portion.
A man to whom Elohim has given riches and wealth and esteem, so that his being lacks none at all of what he desires, but Elohim does not permit him to eat of it, and a foreigner consumes it. This is futile, and it is an evil disease.
“For of old I have broken your yoke and torn off your chastisements. And you said, ‘I am not serving You,’ when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down, a whore.