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


In Context

6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

8 For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, that knows 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.

10 That which has been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Ecclesiastes 6:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:9Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:9Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:9Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:9Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:9Better is the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.