Ecclesiastes 6:9

WEB

⁹Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

KJV

⁹¶ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

BSB

⁹Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

FBV

⁹Be happy with what you have instead of running after what you don't! But this is also hard to do, like running after the wind.

Extra References

Ecclesiastes 1:14

¹⁴I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Job 31:7

⁷if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

Ecclesiastes 2:11

¹¹Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

⁴Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

⁹Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13

¹²I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. ¹³Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

²“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 5:18

¹⁸Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 2:22-24

²²For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun? ²³For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. ²⁴There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

²a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.