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Ecclesiastes 6:9

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Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 6:7

    All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

  2. Ecclesiastes 6:8

    For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

  3. Ecclesiastes 6:10

    That 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.

  4. Ecclesiastes 6:11

    Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.