Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
All the days of his life also must he eat in the dark, with great carefulness, sickness and sorrow.
New American Standard Bible
Throughout his life
King James Version
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Holman Bible
What is more, he eats in darkness all his days,
International Standard Version
Furthermore, all his days he lives in darkness with great sorrow, anger, and affliction.
A Conservative Version
All his days also he eats in gloom, and he is greatly troubled, and has depression and anger.
American Standard Version
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.
Amplified
All of his life he also eats in darkness [cheerlessly, without sweetness and light], with great frustration, sickness, and anger.
Bible in Basic English
All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
Darby Translation
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.
Julia Smith Translation
Also all his days in darkness shall he eat, and much vexation and his sickness and his anger.
King James 2000
All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Also, he eats in darkness all his days; he is frustrated [in] much sickness and resentment.
Modern King James verseion
Also all his days he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
NET Bible
Surely, he ate in darkness every day of his life, and he suffered greatly with sickness and anger.
New Heart English Bible
All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
The Emphasized Bible
Even all his days, are spent in darkness and mourning, - and he is very morose, and is sad and angry.
Webster
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
World English Bible
All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
Youngs Literal Translation
Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.
Themes
Darkness » Illustrative of » Heavy afflictions
Disease » Sent as a judgment » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin
Sickness » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 5:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
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16 This is a miserable plague, that he shall go away even as he came. What helpeth him then, that he hath labored in the wind? 17 All the days of his life also must he eat in the dark, with great carefulness, sickness and sorrow. 18 Therefore me think it a better and fairer thing, a man to eat and drink, and to be refreshed of all his labour that he taketh under the Sun all the days of his life which God giveth him: for this is his portion.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 127:2
It is but lost labour that ye rise up early, and take no rest, but eat the bread of carefulness; for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Genesis 3:17
And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life:
1 Kings 17:12
And she answered, "As surely as the LORD thy God liveth, I have no bread, but even a handful of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse. And see, I have gathered a few sticks for to go and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it and then die."
2 Kings 1:2
And Ahaziah fell through a lattice window out of an upper chamber that he had in Samaria, and fell sick. Then he sent messengers saying unto them, "Go and enquire of Beelzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease."
2 Kings 1:6
And they said unto him, "There came a man against us and said unto us, 'Go and turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him: Thus sayeth the LORD. Is it because there is no God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire through Beelzebub the god of Ekron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.'"
2 Kings 5:27
The leprosy therefore of Naaman cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed forever." And he went out from him a leper as white as snow.
2 Chronicles 16:10-12
Whereupon Asa was wroth with the seer and put him in the converting house, for he was displeased with him because of that. Moreover Asa oppressed certain of the people the same season.
2 Chronicles 24:24-25
And though the army of Syria came with a small company of men, yet the LORD delivered a very great host into their hands, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. And thereto they served Joash according.
Job 21:25
Another dieth in sorrow and heaviness, and never had good days.
Psalm 78:33
Therefore their days were consumed in vanity, and suddenly their years were gone.
Psalm 90:7-11
For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.
Psalm 102:9
I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle my drink with weeping,
Proverbs 1:27-29
even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea, when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you.
Ezekiel 4:16-17
And he said unto me, "Behold thou son of man, I will minish all the provision of bread in Jerusalem, so that they shall weigh their bread, and eat it with scarceness. But as for water, they shall have a very little measure thereof, to drink.
Acts 12:23
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the honour, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
1 Corinthians 11:30-32
For this cause many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.