Daily Meditation
9 Better is the
sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and
vexation of spirit.
Today’s Reading
Ecclesiastes
Chapter 6
There is an evil
which I have seen under the sun
1 There is an evil
which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: 2 a man to whom
God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his
soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but
a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
3 If a man beget an
hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many,
and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say,
that an untimely birth is better than he. 4 For he cometh in with vanity, and
departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. 5 Moreover
he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the
other. 6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no
good: do not all go to one place?
7 All the labour of
man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. 8 For what hath the
wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the
living? 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire:
this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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