Ecclesiastes 1:8

A Conservative Version

All things are full of weariness, man cannot utter [it]. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Cross References

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Matthew 11:28

Come to me, all ye who labor and have been burdened, and I will give you rest.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one man who is alone, and he has not a second, yea, he has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end of all his labor, nor are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [he says], do I labor, and deprive my soul of

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they will be filled.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Psalm 63:5

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness. And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from where the rivers come, there they go again.

Haggai 1:9

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

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