Ecclesiastes 5:20 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

Common English Bible

²⁰ 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

because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Psalm 37:16

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches 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 common among men:

Isaiah 64:5

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

Romans 5:1

Therefore being justified by faith, we 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, for the abundance of all things;