Ecclesiastes 8:15

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

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.

Cross References

Psalm 42:8

The Lord sent his mercy in the day; and his song in the night. With me is the prayer to God of my life;

Ecclesiastes 2:1

Therefore I said in mine heart, I shall go, and I shall flow in delights, and I shall use goods; and I saw also that this was vanity.

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 2:24

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.

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 5:18

Therefore this seemed good to me, that a man eat, and drink, and use gladness of his travail, in which he travailed under the sun, in the number of [the] days of his life, which God gave to him; and this is his part.

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;