Ecclesiastes 3:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Psalm 34:12

What man is he that desireth life, And loveth many days, that he may see good?

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched in mine heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, mine heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him in his labour all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.

Deuteronomy 12:7

and there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

Deuteronomy 26:11

and thou shalt rejoice in all the good which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is in the midst of thee.