Ecclesiastes 9:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

With the wife

All the days of the life

Ecclesiastes 6:12

Psalm 39:5

Psalm 144:4

For

Ecclesiastes 2:10

Ecclesiastes 3:13

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Bible References

With the wife

Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing
And obtains favor from the Lord.

House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers,
But a prudent wife is from the Lord.

But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.

All the days of the life

For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath.

Selah.

Man is like a mere breath;

His days are like a passing shadow.

For

All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor.

moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor—it is the gift of God.

Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his

reward.