Ecclesiastes 6:7

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

John 6:27

Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you: for him has God the Father sealed.

Proverbs 16:26

He that labors labors for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I say to you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, that knows to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.