Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
The labour
Appetite
Bible References
The labour
Genesis 3:17
And unto Adam he said, Because you have listened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life;
Proverbs 16:26
He that labors labors for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body than clothing?
John 6:27
Labor not for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for on him has God the Father set his seal.
1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Appetite
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.
Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.