(A)All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.[a] For what advantage has the wise man (B)over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living? Better (C)is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is (D)vanity and a striving after wind.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 6:7 Hebrew filled

Everyone’s toil is for their mouth,
    yet their appetite is never satisfied.(A)
What advantage have the wise over fools?(B)
What do the poor gain
    by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
Better what the eye sees
    than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
    a chasing after the wind.(C)

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