Ecclesiastes 6:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Better is the sight of the eyes [the enjoyment of what is available to one] than the cravings of wandering desire. This is also vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility) and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it!

American Standard Version (1901)

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Common English Bible

It’s better to enjoy what’s at hand than to have an insatiable appetite. This too is pointless, just wind chasing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

It is better to see what you desire, than to desire what you cannot know. But this, too, is emptiness and a presumption of spirit.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 6:9 Tagairtí Cros

Job 31:7

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

*Vanity of vanities,* says Kohelet; *Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.*

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Jeremiah 2:20

For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.