All the labor of man is for his mouth: yet the [a]soul is not filled.

For what hath the wise man more than the fool? what hath the poor that [b]knoweth how to walk before the living?

The [c]sight of the eye is better than to walk in the lusts: this also is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 6:7 His desire and affection.
  2. Ecclesiastes 6:8 That knoweth to use his goods well in the judgment of men.
  3. Ecclesiastes 6:9 To be content with that which God hath given, is better than to follow the desires that never can be satisfied.

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