Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

All the labor of man for his mouth, and also the soul shall not be filled.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

All man’s labor is for his stomach,
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.

Darby Translation

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
of man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

and yet the appetite
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

References

Hastings

Verse Info

Context Readings

One Must Learn To Be Content With What One Has

6 And although he lived a thousand years twice, and he saw not good. Did not all go to one place? 7 All the labor of man for his mouth, and also the soul shall not be filled. 8 For what will remain to the wise one more than the foolish one? what to the poor that shall know to go before the living


Cross References

Proverbs 16:26

The soul of him laboring, labored for himself; for his mouth urged upon him.

Genesis 3:17-19

And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man shall beget a hundred, and live many years, and a multitude shall be the days of his years, and his soul shall not be satisfied from good, and also there was no burial to him; I said, Good above him an abortion.

Matthew 6:25

For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress?

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened.

John 6:27

Work not for food perishing, but food remaining to eternal life, which the Son of man will give you: for him God the Father sealed.

1 Timothy 6:6-8

But devotion with contentment is great gain.

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