Ecclesiastes 6:9

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the soul. This is also vanity and striving after wind.

Cross References

Job 31:7

If my step has turned aside out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my palm,

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and striving after wind!

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness, and folly. I know that this also, it is striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity!

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth. And make your heart glad in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I faced on all my works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do. And, behold, all is vanity and striving after wind, and there is no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

And I considered all labor, and every advantage of the work, that it is the envy of a man against his neighbor; this is also vanity and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold that which I have seen: It is good, it is beautiful, to eat and to drink and to see good in all his labor that the laborer does under the sun, the number of the days of his life which God gives to him, for it is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

A man to whom God has given riches, and wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires; yet God does not give him the power to eat of it, but a foreign man eats it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Jeremiah 2:20

For long ago you broke your yoke and tore up your bonds. And you said, I will not pass by, when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like one doing adultery.