Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Context
7 All the labour of man for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8 For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
9 Better the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also vanity and vexation of spirit.
10 That which has been is named already, and it is known that it man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what man the better?