Ecclesiastes 8:15

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

Psalm 42:8

The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

And I said in my heart, “Come, and I will test you with selfish pleasures; enjoy your desires.” And notice that this too is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

Everything my eyes wanted, I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any selfish pleasure, for my heart was glad of all my efforts; and this was my reward for all my efforts.

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 2:3

I investigated how to cheer up my body with wine, while my heart was still guiding me with wisdom, in order to grasp folly, until I might experience what is good for people to do under heaven during the number of days that they might have life.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

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?

Ecclesiastes 5:18

This is what I have observed to be good and pleasing: to eat and drink and see benefit in all one’s labor with which he toils under the sun the few days of his life, which God has given to him, for this is his reward.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in this world that they not be conceited, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who richly gives us all things to enjoy.