Ecclesiastes 6:7

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What does Ecclesiastes 6:7 mean?

Ecclesiastes 6:7 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 6:7

• John 6:27

  Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

• Proverbs 16:26

  He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

• 1 Timothy 6:6-8

  But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

• Matthew 6:25

  Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

• Ecclesiastes 5:10

  He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

• Luke 12:19

  And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

• Ecclesiastes 6:3

  If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

• Genesis 3:17-19

  And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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Context

• Ecclesiastes 6:6

  Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

• Ecclesiastes 6:7

  All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

• Ecclesiastes 6:8

  For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

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