Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For who will eat or go more lustily to his work than I?
New American Standard Bible
For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without
King James Version
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
Holman Bible
because who can eat and who can enjoy life
International Standard Version
for who can eat or enjoy life apart from him?
A Conservative Version
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, without him?
American Standard Version
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
Amplified
For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him?
Bible in Basic English
Who may take food or have pleasure without him?
Darby Translation
For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?
Julia Smith Translation
For who shall eat, and who shall hasten forth above me?
King James 2000
For who can eat, or who else can have enjoyment, more than I?
Lexham Expanded Bible
For who can eat [and drink], and who can enjoy [life] apart from him?
Modern King James verseion
For who can eat, or who can enjoy, apart from me?
NET Bible
For no one can eat and drink or experience joy apart from him.
New Heart English Bible
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, apart from him?
The Emphasized Bible
For who could eat and who could enjoy, so well as I?
Webster
For who can eat, or who else can hasten to it more than I?
World English Bible
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
Youngs Literal Translation
For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?
Themes
Happiness/joy » Who God gives joy to
Knowledge » Who God gives knowledge to
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 2:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
Is There Real Happiness In Life?
24 Is it not better then for a man to eat and drink, and his soul to be merry in his labour? Yea I saw that this also was a gift of God: 25 For who will eat or go more lustily to his work than I? 26 He giveth unto man, what it pleaseth him; whether it be wisdom, understanding, or gladness. But unto the sinner he giveth weariness and sorrow, that he may gather and heap together the thing, that afterward shall be given unto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vain thing, yea a very disquietness and vexation of mind.
Names
Cross References
1 Kings 4:21-24
And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river throughout all the land of the Philistines unto the borders of Egypt, and they brought presents and served Solomon all days of his life.
Ecclesiastes 2:1-12
Then said I thus in my heart, "Now go to, I will take mine ease and have good days." But lo, that was vanity also: