Ecclesiastes 5:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁷ What is more, he eats in darkness all his days,  with much frustration, sickness, and anger.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ All his days also he eats in darkness [cheerlessly, with no sweetness and light in them], and much sorrow and sickness and wrath are his.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ What’s more, they constantly eat in darkness, with much aggravation, grief, and anger.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And so, this has seemed good to me: that a person should eat and drink, and should enjoy the fruits of his labor, in which he has toiled under the sun, for the number of the days of his life that God has given him. For this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 5:17 Cross References

Genesis 3:17

And he said to the man, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, “Do not eat from it”: The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labour all the days of your life.

1 Kings 17:12

But she said, ‘As the Lord your God lives,  I don’t have anything baked #– #only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil  in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go and prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.’

2 Kings 1:2

Ahaziah  had fallen through the latticed window of his upstairs room in Samaria  and was injured. So he sent messengers, instructing them, ‘Go and enquire of Baal-zebub,  , the god of Ekron,  whether I will recover from this injury.’

2 Kings 1:6

They replied, ‘A man came to meet us and said, “Go back to the king who sent you and declare to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you’re sending these men to enquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore, you will not get up from your sick-bed; you will certainly die.’ ” ’

2 Kings 5:27

Therefore, Naaman’s skin disease will cling to you and your descendants for ever.’ So Gehazi went out from his presence diseased, resembling snow.  ,

Job 21:25

Yet another person dies with a bitter   soul, having never tasted prosperity.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

All that my eyes desired, I did not deny them.  I did not refuse myself any pleasure, for I took pleasure in all my struggles. This was my reward for all my struggles.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are filled with grief, and his occupation is sorrowful;  even at night, his mind does not rest.  This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a person than to eat, drink, and enjoy  , his work.  I have seen that even this is from God’s hand,

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful,  but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other,  so that no one can discover anything that will come after him.

Acts 12:23

At once an angel of the Lord  struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.