Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Cross References (12)

  • Ecclesiastes 1:14 (7)

    I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

  • Job 31:7 (4)

    If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

  • Ecclesiastes 2:11 (3)

    Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything

  • Ecclesiastes 1:2 (3)

    “Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”

  • Ecclesiastes 5:18 (3)

    Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does un

  • Ecclesiastes 4:4 (3)

    I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  • Ecclesiastes 11:9 (3)

    Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of you

  • Ecclesiastes 3:12–13 (3)

    I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,

  • Ecclesiastes 2:22–24 (2)

    For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?

  • Ecclesiastes 6:2 (1)

    God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; but God does not allow him to enj

  • Proverbs 30:15–16 (0)

    The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enoug

  • Jeremiah 2:20 (0)

    “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and u