“ All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetitea is not filled. ”
Connect these verses with Ecclesiastes 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 i...
All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the (e) appetite is not filled. (e) His desire and affection.
Ecclesiastes 6. Further Reflections on Wealth and Fate. Parallel with the bitter experience of the avaricious man who loses his wealth is that of the rich and successful man whose cherished desires...
labour . toil. the appetite . the soul. Hebrew. nephesh.
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. All the labor of man - This is the grand primary object of all human labor; merely to provide for the support of life by...
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. All the labour of man (is) for his mouth - rather, 'of the man,' namely, the miser ( Ecclesiastes 6:3-6 ). For not...
Life an Enigma 1-6. Riches will not secure happiness.
THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1-12 ; Ecclesiastes 7:1-29 , and Ecclesiastes 8:1-15 IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown th...
The preacher knows prosperity experimentally far better than poverty. Moreover, by observation he is more familiar with men of wealth than with poor men, and, therefore, he returns to a declaration o...
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? (9) Better is th...
All the labour of man [is] for his mouth ,.... For the food of his mouth, as the Targum; for the sustenance of his body, for food and clothing, part being put for the whole: all that a man labours f...
All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. Ver. 7. All the labour of man is for his mouth. ] That is, For food and raiment, as 1Ti 6:8 a little whereof will c...
All the labour of man is for his mouth For meat and other necessary provisions of this life; and yet the appetite is not filled Although all that a man can obtain by his labours is but a provisio...
The Insatiableness of Desire. 7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. 8 For w...
For his mouth; for meat to put into his mouth, that he may get food; and as bread is oft put for all food, so food is put for all necessary provisions for this life, as Proverbs 30:8 , and elsew...
Life Is Not Enjoyable To Even Some of the Rich ( Ecclesiastes 6:1-7 ). Ecclesiastes 6:1 ‘There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavily on men. A man to whom God gives ri...
Ecclesiastes 5:9-20 ; Ecclesiastes 6:1-9 I. In all grades of society human subsistence is very much the same. Even princes are not fed with ambrosia, nor do poets subsist on asphodel. The prof...
Ecclesiastes 6:2 . But a stranger eateth it. The richer families in Israel had often foreign servants, who rose to influence in their master's house. But greater was the affliction from invading a...
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 6:1-21 Section 9. Koheleth proceeds to illustrate the fact which he stated at the end of the last chapter, viz. that the possession and enjoyment of wealth are alike...
Of the Vanity of Earthly Riches.
1 Timothy 6:6-8 ; Ecclesiastes 5:10 ; Ecclesiastes 6:3 ; Genesis 3:17-19 ; John 6:27 ; Luke 12:19 ; Matthew 6:25 ; Proverbs 16:26
Is — For meat. And yet — Men are insatiable in their desires, and restless in their endeavours after more, and never say, they have enough.