Ecclesiastes 6
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1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
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2A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
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3If 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.
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4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
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5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
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6Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
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7All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
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9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
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11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
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Chapter 6
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 6:1
Ecclesiastes 6:2
Ecclesiastes 5:19Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him powe...Psalms 17:14From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their por...Psalms 73:7Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.1 Kings 3:13And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and hono...Luke 12:19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; ta...
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Job 3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.Ecclesiastes 4:3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the...2 Kings 9:35And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the...Jeremiah 22:19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the ga...Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundr...
Ecclesiastes 6:4
Ecclesiastes 6:5
Psalms 58:8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely bir...Job 3:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine e...Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.Job 14:1Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Ecclesiastes 6:6
Ecclesiastes 3:20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.Job 30:23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all...Hebrews 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:Job 1:21And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither...Isaiah 65:22They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat...
Ecclesiastes 6:7
John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto e...Proverbs 16:26He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.1 Timothy 6:6But godliness with contentment is great gain.Matthew 6:25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or w...Ecclesiastes 5:10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abu...
Ecclesiastes 6:8
Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I mys...Proverbs 19:1Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in hi...1 Timothy 6:17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust...Genesis 17:1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and sa...Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ord...
Ecclesiastes 6:9
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanit...Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, an...Ecclesiastes 1:2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.Ecclesiastes 6:2A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth noth...Ecclesiastes 4:4¶ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is...
Ecclesiastes 6:10
Job 9:32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come toget...Isaiah 45:9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the pots...Job 40:2Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God,...Jeremiah 49:19Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the hab...Genesis 3:17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, a...
Ecclesiastes 6:11
Ecclesiastes 4:16There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they...Ecclesiastes 5:7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: bu...Ecclesiastes 1:17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived t...Ecclesiastes 3:19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befall...Ecclesiastes 4:1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: a...
Ecclesiastes 6:12
James 4:14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is ev...Ecclesiastes 3:22Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoic...Job 14:2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and...Lamentations 3:24The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.Psalms 144:4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 6:1
Ecclesiastes 6:2
Ecclesiastes 5:19Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him powe...Psalms 17:14From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their por...Psalms 73:7Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.1 Kings 3:13And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and hono...Luke 12:19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; ta...
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Job 3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.Ecclesiastes 4:3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the...2 Kings 9:35And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the...Jeremiah 22:19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the ga...Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundr...
Ecclesiastes 6:4
Ecclesiastes 6:5
Psalms 58:8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely bir...Job 3:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine e...Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.Job 14:1Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Ecclesiastes 6:6
Ecclesiastes 3:20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.Job 30:23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all...Hebrews 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:Job 1:21And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither...Isaiah 65:22They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat...
Ecclesiastes 6:7
John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto e...Proverbs 16:26He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.1 Timothy 6:6But godliness with contentment is great gain.Matthew 6:25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or w...Ecclesiastes 5:10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abu...
Ecclesiastes 6:8
Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I mys...Proverbs 19:1Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in hi...1 Timothy 6:17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust...Genesis 17:1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and sa...Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ord...
Ecclesiastes 6:9
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanit...Job 31:7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, an...Ecclesiastes 1:2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.Ecclesiastes 6:2A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth noth...Ecclesiastes 4:4¶ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is...
Ecclesiastes 6:10
Job 9:32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come toget...Isaiah 45:9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the pots...Job 40:2Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God,...Jeremiah 49:19Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the hab...Genesis 3:17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, a...
Ecclesiastes 6:11
Ecclesiastes 4:16There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they...Ecclesiastes 5:7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: bu...Ecclesiastes 1:17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived t...Ecclesiastes 3:19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befall...Ecclesiastes 4:1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: a...
Ecclesiastes 6:12
James 4:14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is ev...Ecclesiastes 3:22Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoic...Job 14:2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and...Lamentations 3:24The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.Psalms 144:4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.