Ecclesiastes 6:7
All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.
BSB
ASV
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
KJV
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Connect these verses with Ecc 6:2-3: “All labor is undertaken with a view to some profit, but as a rule the people who labor are never satisfied. What advantage then has he who labors if (being rich) he is wise, or if being poor he knows how to conduct himself properly; what advantage have such laborers above a fool? (None, so far as they are without contentment, for) a thing present before the eyes is preferable to a future which exists only in the desire.” Ecc 6:8 What - literally, what profit (as in Ecc 1:3).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 6:25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more…
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Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
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John 6:27Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of…
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Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the…
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.