Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Wandering of the desire
Bible References
Better
Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:12
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime;
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.
Wandering of the desire
Job 31:7 “If my step has turned from the way,
Or my heartfollowed my eyes,
Or if anyspot has stuck to my hands,
Or my heart
Or if any
Proverbs 30:15 The leech has two daughters,
“Give,” “Give.”
There are three things that will not be satisfied,
Four that will not say, “Enough”:
“Give,” “Give.”
There are three things that will not be satisfied,
Four that will not say, “Enough”:
Jeremiah 2:20 “For long ago I broke your yoke
And tore off your bonds;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on everyhigh hill
And under every green tree
You have lain down as a harlot.
And tore off your bonds;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on every
And under every green tree
You have lain down as a harlot.
This
Ecclesiastes 6:2
a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God has not empowered him to eat from them, for a foreigner enjoys them. This is vanity and a severe affliction.
Ecclesiastes 1:2 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher,
“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”
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Ecclesiastes 2:11
Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind.