Ecclesiastes 6:7

All a man’s labor is for his mouth and yet the appetite is not satisfied.

Proverbs 16:26

A worker’s appetite works for him,
For his hunger urges him on.

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

Matthew 6:25

“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. 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 many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’

John 6:27

Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”

1 Timothy 6:6-8

But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

The labour

1 Timothy 6:6

Appetite

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Ecclesiastes 5:10

Luke 12:19

Bible References

The labour

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

Cursed is the ground because of you;

In toil you will eat of it

All the days of your life.