Ecclesiastes 8:15

The English Standar Version

And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him 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 in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself." But behold, this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

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

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment[2] in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

Ecclesiastes 2:3

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

Ecclesiastes 3:22

So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment[7] in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.

1 Timothy 6:17

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.