Ecclesiastes 6:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition All the labor of man is for his mouth [for self-preservation and enjoyment], and yet his desire is not satisfied. [Prov. 16:26.] American Standard Version (1901) All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. Common English Bible All the hard work of humans is for the mouth, but the appetite is never full. Catholic Public Domain Version Every labor of man is for his mouth, but his soul will not be filled. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled. |
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.
For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.’
Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you; for on him has God the Father set his seal.”