Ecclesiastes 9:9

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Use thou life with the wife which thou lovest, in all the days of the life of thine unstableness, that be given to thee under the sun, in all the time of thy vanity; for this is thy part in thy life and [thy] travail, by which thou travailest under the sun.

Cross References

Genesis 26:8

And when full many days were passed, and he dwelled there, Abimelech, king of Palestines, beheld by a window, and saw him playing with Rebecca, his wife.

Psalm 144:4

A man is made like vanity; his days pass as a shadow.

Psalm 39:5

Lo! thou hast set [or put] my days measurable; and my substance is as nought before thee. Nevertheless all vanity; each man living.

Proverbs 18:22

He that findeth a good woman, findeth a good thing; and of the Lord he shall draw up mirth. He that putteth away a good woman, putteth away a good thing; but he that holdeth an adulteress, is a fool and unwise.

Proverbs 19:14

Houses and riches be given of father and mother; but a prudent wife is given properly of the Lord.

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 3:13

For why each man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his travail; this is the gift of God.

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.

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 7:15

Also I saw these things in the days of my nativity; a just [or rightwise] man perisheth in his rightfulness [or rightwiseness], and a wicked man liveth much time in his malice.

Malachi 2:15

Whether one made not, and the residue of spirit is his? and what seeketh one, no but the seed of God? Therefore keep ye your spirit, and do not thou despise the wife of thy youth;