The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.
Ecclesiastes 6:7 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition All the labor of man is for his mouth [for self-preservation and enjoyment], and yet his desire is not satisfied. [Prov. 16:26.] American Standard Version (1901) All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. Common English Bible All the hard work of humans is for the mouth, but the appetite is never full. Catholic Public Domain Version Every labor of man is for his mouth, but his soul will not be filled. English Standard Version 2016 All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied. |
The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.
All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.
Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?
A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.
What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?
Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?
And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years take thy rest; eat, drink, make good cheer.
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.