◄ Ecclesiastes 2:25 ►
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Good News Translation
How else could you have anything to eat or enjoy yourself at all?

New Revised Standard Version
for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?

Contemporary English Version
and no one enjoys eating and living more than I do.

New American Bible
For who can eat or drink apart from God?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?

who can

Ecclesiastes 1:12 I Ecclesiastes was king over Israel in Jerusalem,

1 Kings 4:21-24 And Solomon had under him all the kingdoms, from the river to the land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt: and they brought him presents, and served him all the days of his life. . . .

Context
The Futility of Work
…24Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God. 25Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?26God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:24
Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:26
God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Ecclesiastes 2:24
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