Ecclesiastes 5:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ Likewise, all to whom God gives wealth and possessions and whom he enables to enjoy them and to accept their lot and find enjoyment in their toil—this is the gift of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Also, every man to whom God has given riches and possessions, and the power to enjoy them and to accept his appointed lot and to rejoice in his toil–this is the gift of God [to him].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Also, whenever God gives people wealth and riches and enables them to enjoy it, to accept their place in the world and to find pleasure in their hard work—all this is God’s gift.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ And then he will not fully remember the days of his life, because God occupies his heart with delights.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight,

Ecclesiastes 5:19 Cross References

1 Kings 3:13

I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor all your life; no other king shall compare with you.

2 Chronicles 1:12

wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like.”

Ecclesiastes 3:13

moreover, it is God’s gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

those to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that they lack nothing of all that they desire, yet God does not enable them to enjoy these things, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous ill.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.