Ecclesiastes 8:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So I commend enjoyment, for there is nothing better for people under the sun than to eat and drink and enjoy themselves, for this will go with them in their toil through the days of life that God gives them under the sun.

Cross References

Psalm 42:8

By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said to myself, “Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But again, this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure from all my toil, and this was my reward from all my toil.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, until I might see what was good for mortals to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that there is nothing better than that all should enjoy their work, for that is their lot; who can bring them to see what will be after them?

Ecclesiastes 5:18

This is what I have seen to be good: it is fitting to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of the life God gives us, for this is our lot.

1 Timothy 6:17

As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches but rather on God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.