Ecclesiastes 9:9

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

See life with the wife which thou didst love all the days of the life of thy vanity which he gave to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for this thy portion in life, and in thy labor which thou laborest under the sun.

Cross References

Genesis 26:8

And it was when the days there were long to him, and Abimelech king of the Philistines shall bend forward through the window, and will see, and behold, Isaak playing with Rebekah his wife.

Psalm 144:4

Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.

Proverbs 18:22

He finding a wife found good, and shall obtain acceptance from Jehovah.

Proverbs 19:14

A house and wealth the inheritance of fathers: and an understanding wife from Jehovah.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

Not good in man he shall eat and drink and cause his soul to see good in his labor. Also this I saw that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:13

And also every man shall eat and drink, and see the good in all his labor; it is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I saw that no good more than that man shall rejoice in his works; for this is his portion: for who shall bring him to look upon what shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold, what I saw: good, which is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he will labor under the sun the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; for this his portion.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I saw all in the days of my vanity: there is a just one perishing in his justice, and there is an unjust one, being prolonged in his evil.

Malachi 2:15

And did he not make one? And the remainder of the spirit to him. And why one? Seeking a seed of God. And ye matched in your spirit, and he shall not deal faithlessly against the wife of thy youth.