Ecclesiastes 3:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor–it is the gift of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Common English Bible

¹³ Moreover, this is the gift of God: that all people should eat, drink, and enjoy the results of their hard work.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ For this is a gift from God: when each man eats and drinks, and sees the good results of his labor.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:13 Cross References

Psalm 128:2

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.

Psalm 34:12

What man is there who desires life, and covets many days, that he may enjoy good?

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God;

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

And I commend enjoyment, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and enjoy himself, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of life which God gives him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do.

Deuteronomy 12:7

and there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 26:11

and you shall rejoice in all the good which the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.