Ecclesiastes 2:10

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Summary

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

Whatsoever

My heart rejoiced

General references

Proverbs 14:13

Bible References

Whatsoever

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion. For who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. But know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgmen

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and h

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose.

And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me to wife.

I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin?

Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and enliven me in thy ways.

Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

My heart rejoiced

For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart in which he labors under the sun?

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be fitting is [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him, for this is his p

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.

For thou shall eat the labor of thy hands. Happy thou shall be, and it shall be well with thee.

General references

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of mirth is heaviness.