George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ecclesiastes 6:7
Mouth. We are always providing food. (St. Jerome) --- The rich are wholly bent on pleasure; or the poor cannot get a sufficiency.
Mouth. We are always providing food. (St. Jerome) --- The rich are wholly bent on pleasure; or the poor cannot get a sufficiency.
Verse Ecclesiastes 6:7. _ALL THE LABOUR OF MAN_] This is the grand primary object of all human labour; merely to provide for the support of life by procuring things _necessary_. And life only exists...
Connect these verses with Ecclesiastes 6:2 : “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 if (bein...
CHAPTER 6 DISHEARTENING CONTRADICTIONS _ 1. Riches--Inability to enjoy them (Ecclesiastes 6:1)_ 2. Having All--Yet no fill of the soul (Ecclesiastes 6:3) 3. The sad ending wail (Eccle
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 ar...
LABOUR. toil. THE APPETITE. the soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._...
_All the labour of man is for his mouth i.e._for self-preservation and enjoyment. That is assumed to be the universal aim, and yet even that is not satisfied. The "appetite," literally _soul_(not the...
3. Reasons why riches cannot satisfy Ecclesiastes 6:7-9 TEXT 6:7-9 7 All a man's labor is for his mouth and yet his appetite is not satisfied. 8 For what advantage does the wise man have over the...
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). For not all men la...
6:7 appetite (f-13) Lit. 'soul.'...
LIFE AN ENIGMA 1-6. Riches will not secure happiness....
THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 6 A PERSON’S LIFE THAT IS NOT SATISFACTORY – ECCLESIASTES 6:1-6...
כָּל ־עֲמַ֥ל הָ אָדָ֖ם לְ פִ֑יהוּ וְ
THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 7:1, and Ecclesiastes 8:1 IN the foregoing Section Coheleth has shown that the C
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 of...
All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the (e) appetite is not filled. (e) His desire and affection....
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 the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 12. The Book of Ecclesiastes is, up to a certain point, the converse of the Book of Proverbs. (see NOTE TO PROVERBS below) It is the experience of a...
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 for...
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 con...
_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 provision...
OF THE VANITY OF EARTHLY RICHES....
All the labor of man is for his mouth, his chief concern in this life being the satisfaction of his hunger and of the sensual enjoyment of food, AND YET THE APPETITE IS NOT FILLED, the soul is not sat...
APPETITE: _ Heb._ soul...
"ALL. MAN'S LABOR IS FOR HIS MOUTH AND YET THE APPETITE IS NOT SATISFIED"."IS FOR HIS MOUTH" -for self-preservation and enjoyment. "The first of them (7) makes. point which is as real to modern man on...
7-12 A little will serve to sustain us comfortably, and a great deal can do no more. The desires of the soul find nothing in the wealth of the world to give satisfaction. The poor man has comfort as...
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 elsewhere; w...
Ecclesiastes 6:7 labor H5999 man H120 mouth H6310 soul H5315 satisfied H4390 (H8735) the labour -...
LIFE IS NOT ENJOYABLE TO EVEN SOME OF THE RICH (ECCLESIASTES 6:1). 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 riches, weal...
Ecclesiastes 5:8-7 I. We left Koheleth in the act of exhorting us to fear God. The fear of God, of course, implies a belief in the Divine superintendence of human affairs. This belief Koheleth now pro...
Ecclesiastes 5:9 ; ECCLESIASTES 6:1 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 profit of the ea...
CONTENTS: The vanity of worldly wealth as pertaining only to the body. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: Man deprives himself of the good he might have had of his worldly possessions by not cons...
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 armi...
EXPOSITION ECCLESIASTES 6:1 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 the free gif...
Now there is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it's common among men: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires (E...
1 Timothy 6:6; Ecclesiastes 5:10; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Genesis 3:17;...
Is — For meat. And yet — Men are insatiable in their desires, and restless in their endeavours after more, and never say, they have enough....