Ecclesiastes 6:7

"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 his individual treadmill as to the primitive peasant scraping. bare living from the soil: that he works to eat, for the strength to go on working to go on eating. Even if he enjoys his work-and his food-the compulsion is still there. His mouth, not his mind, seems to be master" (Kidner p. 61).

"yet the appetite is not satisfied" -Certain men labor endlessly for the products of food and pleasure, and yet their desire is never satisfied. When. become addicted to having things, then those things become. relentless taskmaster instead of things that can bring comfort and convenience to my life. The moment. start worshipping anything other than God,. have just forfeited contentment and happiness. Solomon warns that there is always the danger that our desire will outstrip our acquisitions. Actually, the statement, "It is more that you can imagine", typically doesn't apply to what man can imagine concerning earthly wealth and earthly possessions. The problem that confronts many people is that they can imagine much more than they could every possess."All this is damaging to any rosy picture of the world….Qoheleth is very far from holding that man has rights which God ignores; it is rather that man has needs which God exposes….The world itself is made to say to us, in the only language we will mostly listen to, 'This is no place to rest'" (Kidner p. 60) (Hebrews 11:16).