Ecclesiastes 2:24

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Whether it is not better to eat and drink, and to show to his soul [the] goods of his travails? and this thing is of the hand of God.

Cross References

1 Kings 4:20

The people of Judah and Israel were unnumberable, as the sand of the sea in multitude, eating, and drinking, and being glad.

Nehemiah 8:10

And he said to them, Go ye, and eat ye fat things, and drink ye wine made sweet with honey, and send ye parts to them, that made not ready to themselves, for it is an holy day of the Lord; do not ye be sorry, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

and all things which mine eyes desired, I denied not to them; neither I refrained mine heart, that not it used all lust, and delighted itself in these things which I had made ready; and I deemed this my part, if I used my travail.

Ecclesiastes 2:25

Who shall devour so, and shall flow in delights, as I have?

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I thought in mine heart to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I should lead over my soul to wisdom, and that I would eschew folly, till I should see, what were profitable to the sons of men; in which deed the number of days of their life under the sun is needful.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

And I perceived that nothing is better, than that a man be glad in his work, and that this be his part; for who shall bring him, that he know things that shall come after him?

Ecclesiastes 5:17

In all the days of his life he ate in darknesses, and in many busynesses, and in neediness, and sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

since he knoweth not, what shall befall to him in his life, in the number of days of his pilgrimage, and in the time that passeth as shadow? either who may show to him, what thing under [the] sun shall come after him?

Ecclesiastes 6:2

A man is, to whom God gave riches, and chattel [or substance], and honour; and nothing faileth to his soul of all things which he desireth; and God giveth not power to him, that he eat thereof, but a strange man shall devour it. This is vanity, and a great wretchedness.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Therefore I praised gladness, that no good was to a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and to be joyful; and that he should bear away with himself only this of his travail, in the days of his life, which God gave to him under the sun.

Isaiah 56:12

Come ye, take we wine, and be we filled of drunkenness; and it shall be as today, so and tomorrow, and much more.

Malachi 2:2

If ye will hear, and if ye will not put on the heart, that ye give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I shall send neediness into you, and I shall curse your blessings; and I shall curse them, for ye have not put on the heart.

Acts 14:17

And yet he left not himself without witnessing in well-doing, for he gave rains from heaven, and times of bearing fruit, and full-filled your hearts with meat, and gladness.

1 Corinthians 15:32

If after man I have fought to beasts, [or against beasts], at Ephesus, what profiteth it to me, if dead men rise not again? Eat we, and drink we, for we shall die tomorrow [or tomorrow forsooth we shall die].

Deuteronomy 12:12

There ye shall eat before your Lord God, ye, and your sons, and daughters, your menservants, and womenservants, and the deacons [or Levites], that dwell in your cities; for they have none other part and possession among you.

Deuteronomy 12:18

but thou shalt eat those things before thy Lord God, in the place which thy Lord God choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy womanservant, and the deacon [or Levite] that dwelleth in thy cities; and thou shalt be glad, and thou shalt be fulfilled before thy Lord God in all things to which thou holdest forth thine hand.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command thou to the rich men of this world, that they understand not highly [or proudly], neither that they hope in uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, that giveth to us all things plenteously to use;