Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
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- Prov 16:26 : 26 The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.
- Matt 6:25 : 25 So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
- John 6:27 : 27 Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
- 1 Tim 6:6-8 : 6 But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit: 7 For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out; 8 But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.
- Gen 3:17-19 : 17 And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life. 18 Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food; 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
- Luke 12:19 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.
- Eccl 5:10 : 10 When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
- Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
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26 The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.
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8 All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.
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6 And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?
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8 What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?
9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
10 That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.
11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
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19 And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.
20 So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.
21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.
22 What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?
23 All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.
24 There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.
25 Who may take food or have pleasure without him?
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1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;
2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
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2 All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
3 What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?
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8 It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
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16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
17 This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
18 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.
19 He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.
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6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
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10 And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.
11 Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
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17 Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.
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9 What profit has the worker in the work which he does?
10 I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.
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6 One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.
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12 I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.
13 And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.
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4 And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
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23 In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.
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20 The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
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10 When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
11 The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
12 There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
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14 I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
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17 So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
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16 There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
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15 So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
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8 All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.
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22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?
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6 Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.
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1 Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
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19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.
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7 The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.