“Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 6 contains 12 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.