Ecclesiastes 11:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

Common English Bible

⁷ Sweet is the light, and it’s pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Light is pleasant, and it is delightful for the eyes to see the sun.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ The light is sweet, and it is delightful for the eyes to see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 11:7 Cross References

Job 33:28

He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light

Job 33:30

To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Psalm 56:13

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling? That I may walk before God In the light of the living.

Psalm 84:11

For the LORD God is a sun and a shield: The LORD will give grace and glory: No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Proverbs 15:30

The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: And good tidings make the bones fat.

Proverbs 29:13

The poor man and the oppressor meet together: The LORD lighteneth the eyes of them both.

Ecclesiastes 12:2

or ever the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain:

Ecclesiastes 6:5

moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance: yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun.

Matthew 5:45

that ye may be sons of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.