Ecclesiastes 6

Treated in 3 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 6:9 It is better to enjoy what is before your eyes than to let desire roam. This too is a breath and chasing the wind. 2
  • 6:2 God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing they desire, yet God does not enable them to enjoy it; instead a stranger enjoys it. This is a breath and a grievous sickness. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.8 The Eighth Commandment cites Eccl 6: 2

    …‘A man to whom God has given riches, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof’ Eccl 6: 2. He gluts his chest and starves his belly; he is like the ass that is loaded with gold…

  2. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Lovest Thou Me? cites Eccles. vi. 9

    …more! “Better,” he feels, “is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desires” (Eccles. vi. 9.) And why is all this? Simply because he loves Him. Such are the marks by which true love…

  3. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Christ Is All cites Eccles. vi. 9

    …“Better” indeed will be the “sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire!” (Eccles. vi. 9.) But alas, how little fit for heaven are many who talk of “going to heaven” when they…