For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.
Ecclesiastes 3:13 - King James 2000 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it 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 shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.
What man is he that 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 that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
I sought in my heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men, which they should do under heaven all the days of their life.
A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.
Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.
Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works.
And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand unto, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
And you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given unto you, and unto your house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.