Ecclesiastes 6:7

New King James Version

All the labor of man is for his mouth, And yet the soul is not satisfied.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:26

The person who labors, labors for himself, For his hungry mouth drives him on.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

Moreover the profit of the land is for all; even the king is served from the field.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he—

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what more has the wise man than the fool? What does the poor man have, Who knows how to walk before the living?

Matthew 6:25

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry 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 more than clothing?

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

John 6:27

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