Ecclesiastes 3:22
So I concluded that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy [the fruit of] his labor, for this is his lot in life. {For no one knows what will happen in the future.}
Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and {find delight} in his toil. For I also realized that this [is] from the hand of God!
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what [is] good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future} under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 8:7
Surely no one knows what will be, so who can tell anyone what will happen?
Ecclesiastes 10:14
The fool {talks too much}, for no one knows what will be. Who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future}?
Ecclesiastes 3:11-12
He has made everything suitable in its time. He also has put {the past} in their hearts, yet no one can grasp what God does from the beginning to the end.
Deuteronomy 12:7
And you shall eat there {before} Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice {in all your endeavors}, you and your family [in] which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 12:18
But only {before} Yahweh your God you shall eat it, at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite who [is] in your {towns}, and you must rejoice {before} your God {in all your undertakings}.
Deuteronomy 26:10-11
And now, look, I am bringing the firstfruit of the fruit of the ground that you gave to me, Yahweh,' and you shall place it {before} Yahweh your God, and you shall bow down {before} Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 28:47
"{Because} [of the fact] that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,
Job 14:21
His children may [come to] honor, but he does not know [it]; or they may become lowly, but he does not realize it.
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
I neither withheld anything from my eyes that they desired, nor did I deprive any pleasure from my heart. My heart rejoiced in all my toil, for this was my reward from all my toil.
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20
Look! I have discovered what is good and fitting: to eat and to drink and {to enjoy} all [the fruit of] the toil with which one toils under the sun during the number of the days of his life that God gives to him--for this [is] his lot.
Ecclesiastes 8:15
So I recommend enjoyment. For there [is] nothing better for man under the sun than to eat and to drink and to rejoice. This will accompany him in his toil the days of his life that God gives to him under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:7-9
Go--eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also {humans} are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes-- but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.
Daniel 12:9-10
And he said, "Go, Daniel, for the words [are] secret and [are] sealed [up] until [the] time of [the] end.
Daniel 12:13
But you, go [on] to the end and rest, and you will arise for your allotted inheritance at the end of the days."
Matthew 6:34
Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow, because tomorrow will be anxious for itself. {Each day has enough trouble of its own.}
Romans 12:11-12
not lagging in diligence, being enthusiastic in spirit, serving the Lord,
Philippians 4:4-5
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice.