Ecclesiastes 9:8

At all times let your garments be white, and do not let oil be lacking on your head.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

In Context

7Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a glad heart, for already has God been pleased with your works.

9See life with the wife whom you have loved, all the days of the life of your vanity, that He has given to you under the sun, all the days of your vanity, for it [is] your portion in life, even of your labor that you are laboring at under the sun.

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Cross References

Ruth 3:3and you have bathed, and anointed yourself, and put your garments on you, and gone down to the threshing-floor; do not let yourself be known to the man until he completes to eat and to drink;

2 Samuel 19:24And Mephibosheth son of Saul has come down to meet the king—and he did not prepare his feet, nor did he prepare his upper lip, indeed, he did not wash his garments, even from the day of the going away of the king, until the day that he came in peace—

Psalms 23:5You arrange a table before me, || In front of my adversaries, || You have anointed my head with oil, || My cup is full!

Amos 6:6Who are drinking with bowls of wine, || And anoint themselves [with] chief perfumes, || And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.

Luke 7:46you did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman anointed My feet with oil;

Revelation 7:9After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no one was able to number, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, having been clothed [in] white robes, and palms in their hands,

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 9:5-11

The Consequences of Death; The Proper Enjoyment of Life. 4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. 7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink… Read the whole commentary →

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