Ecclesiastes 3:22

Modern English Version

So I saw that there is nothing better than that people take joy in their labor, for that is their reward. Who will bring a person to see what will happen after his life?

Cross References

Job 14:21

His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

A fool increases his words. No one knows what is to come; who can tell him what will come after him?

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. 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 2:18

I despised all the toil in which I labored under the sun, which I will give up to the man who comes after me.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink, and make his life see the good in his labor. This I have seen is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for a person in life during the number of the days of his vain life, which pass like a shadow? For who can declare to a person what will occur after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that people may not find out anything that comes after them.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

So I commend enjoyment, because there is nothing better for people under the sun than to eat and drink and enjoy life, for enjoyment will go with a person in his toil all the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he does not know what is to be, for who can declare to him what is to come?

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one knows his appointed time. Like fish caught in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, so people are ensnared in an evil time, when it suddenly falls on them.

Ecclesiastes 9:6

Their love, hatred, and envy have already perished; they will never again have any share in all that is done under the sun.

Daniel 12:13

“But as for you, go your way until the end. Then you shall rest and rise again for your lot at the end of the age.”

Matthew 6:34

Therefore, take no thought about tomorrow, for tomorrow will take thought about the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is the trouble thereof.

Deuteronomy 12:18

Rather you must eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose —you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite that is within your gates—and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake to do.

Deuteronomy 12:7

There you must eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, where the Lord your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 28:47

because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things.