Ecclesiastes 6:7

New American Bible - revised edition

All human toil is for the mouth, yet the appetite is never satisfied.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of workers works for them, for their mouths urge them on.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are wearisome, too wearisome for words. The eye is not satisfied by seeing nor has the ear enough of hearing.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

Where there are great riches, there are also many to devour them. Of what use are they to the owner except as a feast for the eyes alone?

Ecclesiastes 5:9

The covetous are never satisfied with money, nor lovers of wealth with their gain; so this too is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Should one have a hundred children and live many years, no matter to what great age, still if one has not the full benefit of those goods, I proclaim that the child born dead, even if left unburied, is more fortunate.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What profit have the wise compared to fools, or what profit have the lowly in knowing how to conduct themselves in life?

Matthew 6:25

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat [or drink], or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Luke 12:19

and I shall say to myself, “Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!”’

John 6:27

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