Ecclesiastes 6:7 KJV
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Ecclesiastes 6:7, King James Version
In context
6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
Cross-references
- 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 But godliness with contentment is great gain.