Ecclesiastes 3:13
In addition everyone should eat and drink and enjoy their work—this is God's gift to us.
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12I concluded that there's nothing better than being happy and looking for the good in life.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:30You will be engaged to marry a woman, but another man will sleep with her. You will build a house but you won't live in it. You will plant a vineyard but won't benefit from any harvest.
Judges 6:3Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other peoples from the east would come and attack them.
Ecclesiastes 2:24So what's the best thing to do? Eat, drink, and enjoy your work, recognizing as I did that these things are given to us by God,
Ecclesiastes 6:2God gives wealth, possessions, and honor to someone. They have everything they want. But God doesn't let them enjoy what they have. Instead somebody else does! This is hard to fathom, and is truly evil.
Isaiah 65:21They will build houses and live in them; they will eat the fruit of the vineyards they themselves planted.
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 →