Ecclesiastes 6:7

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.

Cross References

John 6:27

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

Proverbs 16:26

The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thy rest; eat, drink, make good cheer.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.