Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Wandering of the desire
Bible References
Better
Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:12
I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Lo, that which I have seen: It is good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it is his portion.
Wandering of the desire
Job 31:7
If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,
Proverbs 30:15
To the leech are two daughters, 'Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said 'Sufficiency;'
Jeremiah 2:20
For from of old thou hast broken thy yoke, Drawn away thy bands, and sayest, 'I do not serve,' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, Thou art wandering -- a harlot.
This
Ecclesiastes 6:2
A man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!
Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.