Ecclesiastes 6:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

All human toil is for the mouth, yet the appetite is not satisfied.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:26

The appetite of workers works for them; their hunger urges them on.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are wearisome, more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing or the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

The lover of money will not be satisfied with money, nor the lover of wealth with gain. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

But all things considered, this is an advantage for a land: a king for a plowed field.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

For what advantage have the wise over fools? And what do the poor have who know how to conduct themselves before the living?

Matthew 6:25

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will 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 will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’

John 6:27

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