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.

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

Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, "Yahweh will surely separate me from his people;" neither let the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree."

He hath

Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"

No

Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

Is his

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

It is

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

General references

"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?