Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Enjoy life with the one you love, as long as you live the useless life that God has given you in this world. Enjoy every useless day of it, because that is all you will get for all your trouble. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun. live joyfully with the wife Proverbs 5:18,19 Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love. . . . Proverbs 18:22 He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked. Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord. Malachi 2:15 Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth. all the days of his life Ecclesiastes 6:12 What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun? Psalm 39:5 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living. Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. for Ecclesiastes 2:10,24 And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour. . . . Ecclesiastes 3:13,22 For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God. . . . Ecclesiastes 5:18 This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion. Context Enjoy Your Portion in This Life…8At all times let thy garments be white, and let not oil depart from thy head. 9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.10Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.… Cross References Proverbs 5:18 Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love. Ecclesiastes 2:10 And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour. Ecclesiastes 6:12 What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun? Ecclesiastes 7:15 These things also I saw in the days of my vanity: A just man perisheth in his justice, and a wicked man liveth a long time in his wickedness. Jump to Previous Enjoy Foolish Gives Joy Joyfully Labor Live Part Portion Reward Sun Toil Vain Vanity Wherein Wife WorkJump to Next Enjoy Foolish Gives Joy Joyfully Labor Live Part Portion Reward Sun Toil Vain Vanity Wherein Wife WorkLinks Ecclesiastes 9:9 NIVEcclesiastes 9:9 NLT Ecclesiastes 9:9 ESV Ecclesiastes 9:9 NASB Ecclesiastes 9:9 Bible Apps Ecclesiastes 9:9 Biblia Paralela Ecclesiastes 9:9 Chinese Bible Ecclesiastes 9:9 French Bible Ecclesiastes 9:9 German Bible Alphabetical: all and days Enjoy fleeting For given God has have He in is labor labored life lot love meaningless of reward sun that the this to toil toilsome under which whom wife with woman you your OT Poetry: Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you (Ecclesiast. Ec Ecc Eccles.) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |