Ecclesiastes 6:7

Modern English Version

All the labor of a person is for his mouth, to fill his stomach, but his appetite is not filled.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of a laborer works for him; his hunger urges him on.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All matters are wearisome. A person is not able to speak to them. The eye is not satisfied with what it sees, and the ear is not content with what it hears.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

The one who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; the one who loves money desires revenues in abundance. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

But this is an advantage to the land in every way: a king committed to a cultivated field.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man is a father to a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are numerous, but his life is not satisfied with the many good things, and there is not one of his children to eventually bury him, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he —

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what benefit is there for the wise over the fool? And what more does the poor man know who walks before others?

Matthew 6:25

“Therefore, I say to you, take no thought about your life, what you will eat, or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body than clothing?

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take rest. Eat, drink, and be merry.’

John 6:27

Do not work for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For God the Father has set His seal on Him.”