Ecclesiastes 5:17

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

He eateth

Ezekiel 4:16

Much

Bible References

He eateth

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I don’t have anything baked—only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.”

Yet another person dies with a bitter soul,
having never tasted prosperity.

He made their days end in futility,
their years in sudden disaster.

I eat ashes like bread
and mingle my drinks with tears

In vain you get up early and stay up late,
working hard to have enough food—
yes, He gives sleep to the one He loves.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight and in dread drink water by measure.

Much

Ahaziah had fallen through the latticed window of his upper room in Samaria and was injured. So he sent messengers instructing them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub,

the god of Ekron, if I will recover from this injury.”

Therefore, Naaman’s skin disease will cling to you and your descendants forever.” So Gehazi went out from his presence diseased—white as snow.

Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.

Although the Aramean army came with only a few men, the Lord handed over a vast army to them because the people of Judah had abandoned Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. So they executed judgment on Joash.

For we are consumed by Your anger;
we are terrified by Your wrath.

when terror strikes you like a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when trouble and stress overcome you.

At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he became infected with worms and died.

This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep.