Ecclesiastes 6:9

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Better

Ecclesiastes 2:24

Ecclesiastes 3:12

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Wandering of the desire

Job 31:7

Proverbs 30:15

Jeremiah 2:20

This

Bible References

Better

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

Behold that which I have seen: it is good and fitting for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he takes under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him: for this is his lot.

Wandering of the desire

If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;

The leach has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bands; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wander, playing the harlot.

This

A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.

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

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.