For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
Ecclesiastes 3:13 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God. 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. |
For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
and there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
You shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.