7All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
But godliness with contentment is great gain. …
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
If 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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-10)The preacher here further shows the vanity and folly of heaping up worldly wealth and expecting happiness in it. I. How much soever we toil about the world, and get out of it, we can have for ourselves no more than a maintenance (Eccl. 6:7): All the labour of man is for his mouth , which craves it of him (Prov. 16:26); it is but food and raiment ; what is more others have, not we; it is all for th…
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