Ecclesiastes 5:17 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁷ All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ All his days also he eats in darkness [cheerlessly, with no sweetness and light in them], and much sorrow and sickness and wrath are his.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ What’s more, they constantly eat in darkness, with much aggravation, grief, and anger.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And so, this has seemed good to me: that a person should eat and drink, and should enjoy the fruits of his labor, in which he has toiled under the sun, for the number of the days of his life that God has given him. For this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 5:17 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:17

To Adam he said, *Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

1 Kings 17:12

She said, As the LORD your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

2 Kings 1:2

Achazyah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Shomron, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go, inquire of Ba`al-Zevuv, the god of `Ekron, whether I shall recover of this sickness.

2 Kings 1:6

They said to him, There came up a man to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn again to the king who sent you, and tell him, Thus says the LORD, Is it because there is no God in Yisra'el, that you send to inquire of Ba`al-Zevuv, the god of `Ekron? therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely die.

2 Kings 5:27

The leprosy therefore of Na`aman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. He went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.

Job 21:25

Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

Psalm 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

Psalm 39:6

*Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

Psalm 78:33

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

Acts 12:23

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.