Ecclesiastes 3:13
yea also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, it is the gift of God.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
12I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not eat of it.
Judges 6:3And it came to pass when Israel sowed, that Midian came up, and Amalek, and the children of the east, and came up against them.
Ecclesiastes 2:24There is nothing good for man, but that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 6:2one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and a sore evil.
Isaiah 65:21And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof:
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:12-16
Mutability of Human Affairs. 11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. 12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. 13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. 14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken… Read the whole commentary →