OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 6:7

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

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Verse 7. Mouth. We are always providing food. Saint Jerome—The rich are wholly bent on pleasure; or the poor cannot get a sufficiency.

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