Ecclesiastes 3:13

For whi ech man that etith and drinkith, and seeth good of his trauel; this is the yifte of God.

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In The King James Version

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

In Context

12And Y knew that no thing was betere `to a man, `no but to be glad, and to do good werkis in his lijf.

14I haue lerned that alle werkis, whiche God made, lasten stidfastli `til in to with outen ende; we moun not adde ony thing to tho, nether take awei fro tho thingis, whiche God made, that he be dred.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:30Take thou a wijf, and anothir man sleepe with hir; bilde thou an hows, and dwelle thou not ther ynne; plaunte thou a vyner, and gadere thou not grapis therof.

Judges 6:3And whanne Israel hadde sowe, Madian stiede, and Amalech, and othere of the `naciouns of the eest;

Ecclesiastes 2:24Whether it is not betere to ete and drynke, and to schewe to hise soule goodis of hise trauels? and this thing is of the hond of God.

Ecclesiastes 6:2A man is, to whom God yaf richessis, and catel, and onour; and no thing failith to his soule of alle thingis which he desirith; and God yyueth not power to hym, that he ete therof, but a straunge man shal deuoure it. This is vanyte, and a greet wretchidnesse.

Isaiah 65:21And thei schulen bilde housis, and schulen enhabite hem, and thei schulen plaunte vynes, and schulen ete the fruytis of tho.

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