Ecclesiastes 9:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Genesis 26:8

And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. Selah.

Proverbs 18:22

Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14

House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

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.

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 3:13

And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from 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 5:18

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 6:12

Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

Malachi 2:15

(UNTRANSLATED TEXT) So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.