Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Gill's Exposition
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire,.... By "the sight of the eyes" is not meant the bare beholding outward riches, as in Ecc 5:11; but the enjoyment of present mercies;…
Connect these verses with Ecc 6:2-3 : “All labor is undertaken with a view to some profit, but as a rule the people who labor are never satisfied. What advantage then has he who labors if (being rich)…
The preacher here further shows the vanity and folly of heaping up worldly wealth and expecting happiness in it.
I. How much soever we toil about the world, and get out of it, we can have for…
Cambridge Bible
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire Literally, than the wandering of the soul. The truth is substantially that embodied in the fable of "the dog and his shadow" and in…
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