Ecclesiastes 5:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁰ For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in 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

You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

Psalm 37:16

Better is a little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.

Exodus 23:25

You shall serve the Lord your God, and I will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

Ecclesiastes 6:1

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

Isaiah 64:5

Thou meetest him that joyfully works righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou wast angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?

Romans 5:1

Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 28:47

“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things,