Ecclesiastes 2:10

Legacy Standard Bible

All that my eyes asked for I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any gladness, for my heart was glad because of all my labor, and this was my reward for all my labor.

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, so she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Genesis 6:2

that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good in appearance; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

Job 31:1

“I have cut a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a virgin?

Psalm 119:37

Cause my eyes to turn away from looking at worthlessness, And revive me in Your ways.

Psalm 128:2

When you shall eat of the fruit of the labor of your hands, How blessed will you be and how well will it be for you.

Proverbs 23:5

Do you make your eyes fly up to see it? But it is not there! Because it certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Be glad, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be merry during the days of young manhood. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the sights of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with gladness, so that you shall see good things.” And behold, it too was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:22

For what does a man get in all his labor and in the striving of his heart with which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and have his soul see good in his labor. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be glad in his works, for that is his portion. For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its produce. This too is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Also, all his days he eats in darkness with much vexation, and his sickness and anger.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Here is what I have seen to be good, which is beautiful: to eat, to drink, and to see good in all one’s labor in which he labors under the sun during the few days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

a man to whom God gives riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God does not empower him to eat from them, for a foreigner eats from them. This is vanity and a sickening evil.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

What the eyes see is better than what the soul goes after. This too is vanity and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I laud gladness, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will join with him in his labor throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Indeed their love, their hate, and their zeal have already perished, and they will never again have a portion in all that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

See life with the woman whom you love all the days of your vain life, which He has given to you under the sun—all the days of your vanity; for this is your portion in life and in your labor in which you have labored under the sun.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

Judges 14:2

So he came back up and told his father and mother, “I saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; so now, take her for me as a wife.”