Ecclesiastes 6:7

American Standard Version 2015

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 which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, {\i even} God, hath sealed.}

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him;\par\tab For his mouth urgeth him {\i thereto}.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

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

Ecclesiastes 5:10

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

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? {\i or} what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter {\i 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 {\i himself} is served by the field.\par