Thematic Bible
Ecclesiastes 6:1 (show verse)
There is another evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is very common among men:
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Ecclesiastes 6:2 (show verse)
A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honour so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but the strangers eat it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Ecclesiastes 6:3 (show verse)
If a man begets a hundred sons and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his soul is not filled with good and also that he have no burial; I say that an aborted birth is better than he.
Ecclesiastes 6:4 (show verse)
For he came in vain and departs unto darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Ecclesiastes 6:5 (show verse)
Even though he has not seen the sun nor known any thing; this one has more rest than the other.
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Ecclesiastes 6:6 (show verse)
For though the other should live a thousand years twice and has not enjoyed good; both shall surely go to the same place.
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Ecclesiastes 6:7 (show verse)
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and with all this the appetite is not filled.
Ecclesiastes 6:8 (show verse)
For what has the wise more than the fool? what more has the poor that knows how to walk among the living?
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Ecclesiastes 6:9 (show verse)
It is better to enjoy the good that is present than the wandering of desire; this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 6:10 (show verse)
He that is has been named already; and it is known that he is man and that he shall not be able to contend with him that is mightier than he.
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Ecclesiastes 6:11 (show verse)
Certainly the many words multiply vanity, what more does man have?
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Ecclesiastes 6:12 (show verse)
For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of the life of his vanity which he causes to be as a shadow? for who shall teach the man what shall be after him under the sun?
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Only a handbreadth in extent
Life » Brief » Only a handbreadth in extent
natural Life » Is compared to » A shadow
natural Life » Described as » Vain
natural Life » We know not what is good for us in
Man » Not profited by all his labor and travail
Man » Ignorant of what is good for him
Time » Brevity of » Only a handbreadth in extent
Vanity » The days of man are
Life » Brief » Only a handbreadth in extent
natural Life » Is compared to » A shadow
natural Life » Described as » Vain
natural Life » We know not what is good for us in
Man » Not profited by all his labor and travail
Man » Ignorant of what is good for him
Time » Brevity of » Only a handbreadth in extent
Vanity » The days of man are