Better is [a]the (A)sight of the eyes than the wandering of [b]desire.
This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 6:9 What the eyes see
  2. Ecclesiastes 6:9 Lit. soul

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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12 (A)I know how to [a]be abased, and I know how to [b]abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

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  1. Philippians 4:12 live humbly
  2. Philippians 4:12 live in prosperity

12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry,(A) whether living in plenty or in want.(B)

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