Ecclesiastes 11:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Light is sweet! and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.

Cross References

Job 33:28

He delivered me from passing to the pit, and my life sees light.”

Job 33:30

Bringing back his soul from the pit to the light, in the light of the living.

Psalm 56:13

I have made vows to you, God; with offerings I will fulfill them,

Psalm 84:11

Better one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere. Better the threshold of the house of my God than a home in the tents of the wicked.

Proverbs 15:30

A cheerful glance brings joy to the heart; good news invigorates the bones.

Proverbs 29:13

The poor and the oppressor meet: the Lord gives light to the eyes of both.

Ecclesiastes 12:2

Before the sun is darkened, and the light and the moon and the stars and the clouds return after the rain;

Ecclesiastes 6:5

though it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet the dead child has more peace.

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance and profitable to those who see the sun.

Matthew 5:45

that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.