Ecclesiastes 6:7

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

John 6:27

Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for God the Father put a seal on this man.

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of the laboring man labors for him, for his mouth urges him.

Matthew 6:25

Because of this I say to you, be not anxious about your life, what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, nor yet for your body, what ye may wear. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the clothing?

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou have many goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what advantage has the wise man more than the fool? What has the poor man, who knows how to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 1:8

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

Ecclesiastes 5:9

Moreover the abundance of the land is for all. The king [himself] is served by the field.