Ecclesiastes 9:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Enjoy life with the wife you love, all the days of the vain life granted you under the sun. This is your lot in life, for the toil of your labors under the sun.

Cross References

Genesis 26:8

But when they had been there for a long time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out of a window and saw Isaac fondling his wife Rebekah.

Psalm 144:4

Man is but a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:5

Lord, let me know my end, the number of my days, that I may learn how frail I am.

Proverbs 18:22

To find a wife is to find happiness, a favor granted by the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14

Home and possessions are an inheritance from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

Nothing that my eyes desired did I deny them, nor did I deprive myself of any joy; rather, my heart rejoiced in the fruit of all my toil. This was my share for all my toil.

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 3:13

Moreover, that all can eat and drink and enjoy the good of all their toil—this is a gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I saw that there is nothing better for mortals than to rejoice in their work; for this is their lot. Who will let them see what is to come after them?

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Those to whom God gives riches and property, and grants power to partake of them, so that they receive their lot and find joy in the fruits of their toil: This is a gift from God.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for mortals in life, the limited days of their vain life, spent like a shadow? Because who can tell them what will come afterward under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:15

I have seen all manner of things in my vain days: the just perishing in their justice, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

Malachi 2:15

Did he not make them one, with flesh and spirit? And what does the One require? Godly offspring! You should be on guard, then, for your life, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.