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


In Context

6 And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.

8 For what advantage is to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

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

10 What is that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it is man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.

11 For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage is to man?

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 American 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.