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Ecclesiastes 2:24

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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.

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Ecclesiastes 2:24 in other translations

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 2:24 · World English Bible

Ecclesiastes 2:24 in context

  1. 22For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?
  2. 23For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
  3. 24There 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.
  4. 25For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
  5. 26For to the man that pleaseth him God giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.