Ecclesiastes 9:9

Good News Translation

Enjoy life with the one you love, as long as you live the useless life that God has given you in this world. Enjoy every useless day of it, because that is all you will get for all your trouble.

Cross References

Genesis 26:8

When Isaac had been there for some time, King Abimelech looked down from his window and saw Isaac and Rebecca making love.

Psalm 144:4

We are like a puff of wind; our days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:5

How short you have made my life! In your sight my lifetime seems nothing. Indeed every living being is no more than a puff of wind,

Proverbs 18:22

Find a wife and you find a good thing; it shows that the Lord is good to you.

Proverbs 19:14

A man can inherit a house and money from his parents, but only the Lord can give him a sensible wife.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

Anything I wanted, I got. I did not deny myself any pleasure. I was proud of everything I had worked for, and all this was my reward.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

The best thing we can do is eat and drink and enjoy what we have earned. And yet, I realized that even this comes from God.

Ecclesiastes 3:13

All of us should eat and drink and enjoy what we have worked for. It is God's gift.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I realized then that the best thing we can do is enjoy what we have worked for. There is nothing else we can do. There is no way for us to know what will happen after we die.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Here is what I have found out: the best thing we can do is eat and drink and enjoy what we have worked for during the short life that God has given us; this is our fate.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

How can anyone know what is best for us in this short, useless life of ours—a life that passes like a shadow? How can we know what will happen in the world after we die?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

My life has been useless, but in it I have seen everything. Some good people may die while others live on, even though they are evil.

Malachi 2:15

Didn't God make you one body and spirit with her? What was his purpose in this? It was that you should have children who are truly God's people. So make sure that none of you breaks his promise to his wife.