Ecclesiastes 2:10

Bible in Basic English 1965

And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

Genesis 6:2

The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

Job 31:1

I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

Psalm 119:37

Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

Psalm 128:2

You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

Proverbs 23:5

Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasurebut it was to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his workbecause that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

1 John 2:16

Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

Judges 14:2

And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.