Ecclesiastes 6:9

Ecclesiastes 6:9

7 ^aAll the labor of man is for his mouth,
And yet the soul is not satisfied.

8 For what more has the wise man than the fool?
What does the poor man have,
Who knows how to walk before the living?

9 Better is¹ the ^asight of the eyes than the wandering of² desire.
This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

10 Whatever one is, he has been named ^aalready,
For it is known that he is man;
^bAnd he cannot contend with Him who is mightier than he.

11 Since there are many things that increase vanity,
How is man the better?

12 For who knows what is good for man in life,¹ all the days of his vain life which he passes like ^aa shadow? ^bWho can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Answer to the question in Ecclesiastes 6:8. This is the advantage:

Better is the sight of the eyes—the wise man's godly enjoyment of present seen blessings

than the (fool's) wandering—literally, walking (Psalms 73:9), of the desire, that is, vague, insatiable desires for what he has not (Ecclesiastes 6:7; Hebrews 13:5).

this—restless wandering of desire, and not enjoying contentedly the present (I Timothy 6:6, I Timothy 6:8).

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