Ecclesiastes 6:7World English Bible British Edition
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Related Verses
Genesis 3:17
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labour all the days of your life.
Genesis 4:11
Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
Genesis 6:11
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:13
God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
Genesis 8:11
The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.