Ecclesiastes 5:18

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Behold that which I have seen: It is good, it is beautiful, to eat and to drink and to see good in all his labor that the laborer does under the sun, the number of the days of his life which God gives to him, for it is his portion.

Cross References

Psalm 42:8

Jehovah will command His lovingkindness by day, and His song shall be with me in the night, a prayer to the God of my life.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth. And make your heart glad in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

And all that my eyes asked, I did not withdraw from them. I withheld not my heart from all joy; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

Is it not good that he should eat and drink and make his soul see good in his labor? This I also saw, that it was from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched in my heart how to draw out my flesh with wine, and leading my heart in wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might see where the good for the sons of men is, that which they should do under the heavens the number of days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I have seen that nothing is better than that the man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:2

A man to whom God has given riches, and wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires; yet God does not give him the power to eat of it, but a foreign man eats it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Then I praised mirth, because nothing is good for man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be glad. For that shall join with him in his labor for the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a good heart, for God now is pleased with your works.

Jeremiah 52:34

And his allowance, a continual allowance was given to him from the king of Babylon, the matter of a day in its day until the day of his death all the days of his life.

1 Corinthians 16:16

See that you also may submit to such ones, and to everyone working and laboring with us.

Deuteronomy 12:18

But you shall eat it before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, you and your son, and your daughter, and your male slave, and your female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates. And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God in all that you put your hand to.

Deuteronomy 12:7

And you shall eat there before Jehovah your God, and shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, with which Jehovah your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 26:11

and rejoice in all the good which Jehovah your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is in your midst.

1 Timothy 6:17

Charge the rich in the age now, not to be high-minded, nor to set hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, the One offering to us richly all things for enjoyment;