Ecclesiastes 5:17

Behold, I have seen good, that it is a fine thing for a man 1 To eat and to drink, 1 And to see good 1 In all his labor in 1 Which he may labor under the sun, 1 All the number of the days of his life 1 Which God has given to him: 1 For it is his portion. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

In Context

16Yea, all his days are in darkness, and in mourning, 1 And much sorrow, and infirmity, and wrath. 1

18Yea, and as for every man to whom God has given 1 Wealth and possessions, and has given him 1 Power to eat thereof, and to receive his portion, 1 And to rejoice in his labor; 1 This is the gift of God. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 3:17And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat—of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labors, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

2 Kings 1:2And Ahaziah fell through the lattice that was in his upper chamber in Samaria, and was sick; and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go and inquire of Baal fly, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this my sickness. And they went to inquire of him.

2 Kings 5:27The leprosy also of Naaman shall cleave to thee, and to thy seed forever. And he went out from his presence leprous, like snow.

2 Chronicles 24:24For the army of Syria came with few men, yet God gave into their hands a very large army, because they had forsaken the God of their fathers; and he brought judgments on Joash.

Psalms 102:9He will not be always angry; 1 Neither will he be wrathful forever. 1

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:10-18

The Vanity of Riches. 9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. 10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? 12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.… Read the whole commentary →

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