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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

人的一切勞碌都為口腹，他的心卻還是填不滿。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
人 的 劳 碌 都 为 口 腹 ， 心 里 却 不 知 足 。

Contextual Overview

⁷ People work just to feed themselves, but they never seem to get enough to eat. ⁸ In this way a wise person is no better off than a fool. Then, too, it does a poor person little good to know how to get along in life. ⁹ It is better to see what you have than to want more. Wanting more is useless— like chasing the wind. ¹⁰ Whatever happens was planned long ago. Everyone knows what people are like. No one can argue with God, who is stronger than anyone.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the labour: Genesis 3:17-19, Proverbs 16:26, Matthew 6:25, John 6:27, 1 Timothy 6:6-8

appetite: Heb. soul, Ecclesiastes 6:3, Ecclesiastes 5:10, Luke 12:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 48:15 - fed me Psalms 127:2 - the bread Proverbs 27:20 - so Ecclesiastes 2:22 - hath man

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
The number of people on earth began to grow, and daughters were born to them.

Genesis 6:2
When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.

Genesis 6:3
The Lord said, "My Spirit will not remain in human beings forever, because they are flesh. They will live only 120 years."

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of human beings. These women gave birth to children, who became famous and were the mighty warriors of long ago.

Genesis 6:20
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and crawling thing will come to you to be kept alive.

Genesis 6:22
Noah did everything that God commanded him.

Psalms 37:20
But the wicked will die. The Lord 's enemies will be like the flowers of the fields; they will disappear like smoke.

Proverbs 10:27
Whoever respects the Lord will have a long life, but the life of an evil person will be cut short.

Proverbs 16:4
The Lord makes everything go as he pleases. He has even prepared a day of disaster for evil people.

Hosea 4:3
Because of this the land dries up, and all its people are dying. Even the wild animals and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All the labour of man [is] for his mouth,.... For the food of his mouth, as the Targum; for the sustenance of his body, for food and clothing, part being put for the whole: all that a man labours for is to get this; and if he does not enjoy it, his labour is in vain; meats are for the belly, which are taken in by the mouth, and for these a man labours; and if he does not eat them, when he has got them, he labours to no purpose;

and yet the appetite is not filled; even the bodily or sensual appetite; no, not even by those who eat the fruit of their labour; for though their hunger is allayed for the present, and the appetite is satisfied for a while, yet it returns again, and requires more food, and so continually: or, "the soul is not filled", or "satisfied" c; it is the body only that is filled or satisfied with such things, at best; the mind of man grasps after greater things, and can find no contentment or satisfaction in earthly or sensual enjoyments. This seems to be a new argument, proving the vanity of riches, from the narrow use of them; which only reaches to the body, not to the soul.

c הנפש לא תמלא "anima non implebitur", Pagninus, Montanus; "anima non expletur", Mercerus, Gejerus; "non impletur", Cocceius, so Broughton; "non satiatur", Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Connect these verses with Ecclesiastes 6:2-3 : “All labor is undertaken with a view to some profit, but as a rule the people who labor are never satisfied. What advantage then has he who labors if (being rich) he is wise, or if being poor he knows how to conduct himself properly; what advantage have such laborers above a fool? (None, so far as they are without contentment, for) a thing present before the eyes is preferable to a future which exists only in the desire.”

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What - literally, what profit (as in Ecclesiastes 1:3).

Knoweth ... living - i. e., “Knows how to conduct himself rightly among his contemporaries.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 6:7. All the labour of man — This is the grand primary object of all human labour; merely to provide for the support of life by procuring things necessary. And life only exists for the sake of the soul; because man puts these things in place of spiritual good, the appetite - the intense desire after the supreme good - is not satisfied. When man learns to provide as distinctly for his soul as he does for his body, then he will begin to be happy, and may soon attain his end.