Everyone’s toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.

人的劳碌都为口腹，心里却不知足。

人的劳碌都为口腹，心里却不知足。

人的劳碌都为口腹，心里却不知足。

人人为口腹劳碌，却永不满足。

人的一切劳碌都为口腹，他的心却还是填不满。

人的一切劳苦都是为了口腹，但他的胃口还是填不满。

人的勞碌都為口腹，心裏卻不知足。

人的勞碌都為口腹，心裏卻不知足。

人的勞碌都為口腹，心裏卻不知足。

人人為口腹勞碌，卻永不滿足。

人的一切勞碌都為口腹，他的心卻還是填不滿。

人的一切勞碌都是為了口腹，而胃口卻永填不滿。

人的一切勞苦都是為了口腹，但他的胃口還是填不滿。

人之勤勞、皆為其口、而不能饜其欲、

人之勤勞、為口腹計耳、乃心不知足。

人之勞碌、為口腹計耳、乃其心不知足、

People eat up everything they work to get. But they are never satisfied.

All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.

All people spend their lives scratching for food, but they never seem to have enough.

All of a person’s labor is for his stomach, yet the appetite is never satisfied.

All a person’s labor is for his mouth, and yet his appetite is not satisfied.

All the labor of man is for his mouth, And yet the soul is not satisfied.

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

All man’s labor is for his stomach, yet the appetite is never satisfied.

All the labour of man[ is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

All of man’s labor is for nothing more than to fill his stomach– yet his appetite is never satisfied!

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

Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”

The appetite of laborers works for them; their hunger drives them on.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.

“ Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.

To Adam he said,“ Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you,‘ You must not eat from it,’“ Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

And I’ll say to myself,“ You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’