Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Holman Bible
yet the appetite is never satisfied.
International Standard Version
Every person works for his own self-interests, but his desires remain unsatisfied.
A Conservative Version
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
American Standard Version
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Amplified
All the labor of man is for his mouth [for self-preservation and enjoyment], and yet the desire [of his soul] is not satisfied.
Bible in Basic English
All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
Julia Smith Translation
All the labor of man for his mouth, and also the soul shall not be filled.
King James 2000
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All of a man's toil [is] for his mouth-- yet his appetite is never satisfied.
Modern King James verseion
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
All the labour that man taketh is for himself, and yet his desire is never filled after his mind.
NET Bible
All of man's labor is for nothing more than to fill his stomach -- yet his appetite is never satisfied!
New Heart English Bible
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
The Emphasized Bible
All the toil of man, is for his mouth, - though, even the desire, is not satisfied!
Webster
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
World English Bible
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Youngs Literal Translation
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.
Interlinear
`amal
Peh
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 6:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
One Must Learn To Be Content With What One Has
6 Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? 7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. 8 For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Cross References
Proverbs 16:26
The appetite of the labourer laboureth for him, for his mouth urgeth him on.
Genesis 3:17-19
And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred sons, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.
Matthew 6:25
For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?
Luke 12:19
and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.
John 6:27
Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto life eternal, which the Son of man shall give to you; for him has the Father sealed, even God.
1 Timothy 6:6-8
But piety with contentment is great gain.