Ecclesiastes 9:9

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Look on life with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which He gave you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. For that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you as a laborer do under the sun.

Cross References

Genesis 26:8

And it happened when his days were many to him there, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through the window and saw; and, behold, Isaac was sporting with his wife Rebekah.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, like a handbreadth You gave my days; even my life was non-existence before You; surely every man standing is all vanity. Selah.

Proverbs 18:22

He finding a wife finds good, and obtains favor from Jehovah.

Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers, but a wife who acts prudently is from Jehovah.

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 3:13

And also every man that eats and drinks, and sees good in his labor, it is the gift of God.

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 5:18

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.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in this life, the number of the days of his life of vanity? Even he makes them like the shadow. For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

All things I have seen in the days of my vanity; there is a just one who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked one who prolongs his life in his evil.

Malachi 2:15

And did He not make you one? And the vestige of the Spirit is to him. And what of the one? He was seeking a seed of God; even guard your spirit, and do not act deceitfully with the wife of your youth.