"All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled."
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And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
All the labour of man `is' for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.