Ecclesiastes 4:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

One

Ecclesiastes 4:9

Genesis 2:18

Isaiah 56:3

He hath

Genesis 15:2

No

Isaiah 5:8

Is his

1 John 2:16

It is

General references

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Bible References

One

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.

And do not let the son of the stranger, who has joined himself to Jehovah, speak, saying, Jehovah has utterly separated me from His people. And do not let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

He hath

And Abram said, Lord God, what will You give me, since I am going childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

No

Woe to those who join house to house, laying field to field, until the end of space, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

Is his

All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves abundance not with gain. This is also vanity.

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

And also wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he is not content. He widens his soul like Sheol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps to himself all the peoples.

because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

It is

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all which is done under the heavens. It is a sad task God has given to the sons of men to be humbled by it.

For all his days are sorrows, and his labor sadness; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

General references

Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

For there are many things that increase vanity, and what is man the better?