The [a]sight of the eye is better than to walk in the lusts: this also is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 6:9 To be content with that which God hath given, is better than to follow the desires that never can be satisfied.

Better what the eye sees
    than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
    a chasing after the wind.(A)

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