Ecclesiastes 6:7

New Century Version

People work just to feed themselves, but they never seem to get enough to eat.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:26

The workers’ hunger helps them, because their desire to eat makes them work.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

Everything is boring, so boring that you don’t even want to talk about it. Words come again and again to our ears, but we never hear enough, nor can we ever really see all we want to see.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

Whoever loves money will never have enough money; Whoever loves wealth will not be satisfied with it. This is also useless.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

The wealth of the country is divided up among them all. Even the king makes sure he gets his share of the profits.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man might have a hundred children and live a long time, but what good is it if he can’t enjoy the good God gives him or have a proper burial? I say a baby born dead is better off than he is.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

In this way a wise person is no better off than a fool. Then, too, it does a poor person little good to know how to get along in life.

Matthew 6:25

“So I tell you, don’t worry about the food or drink you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.

Luke 12:19

Then I can say to myself, “I have enough good things stored to last for many years. Rest, eat, drink, and enjoy life!” ’

John 6:27

Don’t work for the food that spoils. Work for the food that stays good always and gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because on him God the Father has put his power.”