Ecclesiastes 11:7

Truly the light is sweet, 2 and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun. 1

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Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

In Context

6In the morning plant your seed; 2 until the evening, work with your hands as needed, 1 for you know not which will prosper, 2 whether morning or evening, or this or that, 2 or whether they will both alike be good. 1

8If someone lives many years, 2 let him be happy in all of them, 1 but let him think about the coming days of darkness, 2 for they will be many. 1 Everything to come is vanishing vapor. 1

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Cross References

Job 33:30to bring his soul back from the pit, 1 so that he may be enlightened with the light of life. 1

Psalms 84:11For Yahweh God is our sun and shield; 1 Yahweh will give grace and glory; 1 he does not withhold any good thing from those who walk in integrity. 1

Proverbs 29:13The poor person and the oppressor are similar, 1 for Yahweh gives light to the eyes of them both. 1

Ecclesiastes 7:11Wisdom, like an inheritance, is good. 2 It benefits those who see the sun. 1

Matthew 5:45so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 11:2-7

The Obligations to Be Liberal; Answers to Objections against Liberality. 1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. 2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. 3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. 4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall… Read the whole commentary →

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