You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
Ecclesiastes 3:13 - English Standard Version 2016 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor–it is the gift of God. American Standard Version (1901) And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God. Common English Bible Moreover, this is the gift of God: that all people should eat, drink, and enjoy the results of their hard work. Catholic Public Domain Version For this is a gift from God: when each man eats and drinks, and sees the good results of his labor. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God. |
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,
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.
a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil.
And I commend joy, for man has nothing better 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.
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
And you shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.