Ecclesiastes 5:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For he shall not much remember [seriously] the days of his life, because God [Himself] answers and corresponds to the joy of his heart [the tranquillity of God is mirrored in him].

American Standard Version (1901)

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

Common English Bible

Indeed, people shouldn’t brood too much over the days of their lives because God gives an answer in their hearts’ joy.

Ecclesiastes 5:20 Cross References

Job 11:16

For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away:

Psalm 37:16

Better is a little that the righteous hath Than the abundance of many wicked.

Exodus 23:25

And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Ecclesiastes 6:1

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

Isaiah 64:5

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time, and shall we be saved?

Romans 5:1

Being therefore justified by faith, let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Deuteronomy 28:47

because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things: