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Ecclesiastes 6:9 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 6 · verse 9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 6:9 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 6:9 in context
7All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wanderinghâlakto walkH1980 →
- vexationrᵉʻûwtha feeding uponH7469 →
- Betterṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
- desirenepheshproperly, a breathing creatureH5315 →
- vanityhebelemptiness or vanityH1892 →
- sightmarʼeha viewH4758 →
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The preacher here further shows the vanity and folly of heaping up worldly wealth and expecting happiness in it. I. How much soever we toil about the world, and get out of it, we can have for ourselves no more than a maintenance (Ecc 6:7): All the labour of man is for his mouth, which craves it of him (Pro 16:26);
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-10