Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The light is pleasant, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

King James Version

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

Holman Bible

Light is sweet,
and it is pleasing for the eyes to see the sun.

International Standard Version

How sweet is the daylight, and how pleasant it is for someone's eyes to behold the sunshine!

A Conservative Version

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

American Standard Version

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

Amplified

The light is sweet and pleasant, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

Bible in Basic English

Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

Darby Translation

Now the light is sweet, and pleasant is it to the eyes to see the sun;

Julia Smith Translation

And the light is sweet, and good to the eyes to see the sun:

King James 2000

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

Lexham Expanded Bible

The light is sweet, and it [is] pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.

Modern King James verseion

Also the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The light is sweet, and a pleasant thing is it for the eyes to look upon the Sun.

NET Bible

Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for a person to see the sun.

New Heart English Bible

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.

The Emphasized Bible

Truly sweet is the light, - and, pleasant to the eyes, to see the sun:

Webster

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

World English Bible

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.

Youngs Literal Translation

Sweet also is the light, And good for the eyes to see the sun.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Truly the light
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

is sweet
מתוּק מתוק 
Mathowq 
Usage: 12

thing it is for the eyes
עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

to behold
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

References

Hastings

Sun

Context Readings

Enjoy Life To The Fullest Within The Auspices Of The Fear Of God

6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, either this or that or whether they both shall be equally good. 7 The light is pleasant, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun. 8 but if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Knowledge is good with an inheritance and is the excellency of those that see the sun.

Job 33:28

God will ransom his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

Job 33:30

to turn back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

Psalm 56:13

For thou hast delivered my life from death; thou hast kept my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Psalm 84:11

For the LORD God is a sun and shield unto us; the LORD will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good from those that walk uprightly.

Proverbs 15:30

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and a good report makes the bones fat.

Proverbs 29:13

The poor and the usurer meet together; the LORD lightens both their eyes.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Even though he has not seen the sun nor known any thing; this one has more rest than the other.

Matthew 5:45

that ye may be sons of your Father who is in the heavens, for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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