Ecclesiastes 2:25

New American Bible - revised edition

For who can eat or drink apart from God?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink and provide themselves with good things from their toil. Even this, I saw, is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases God, he gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the one who displeases, God gives the task of gathering possessions for the one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chase after wind.