Ecclesiastes 9:9 Cross References - Thomson

⁹ enjoy life also with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity which are given thee under the sun: for this is thy portion in this life of thine, and this thy labour with which thou toilest under the sun.

⁵ Behold thou hast made my days old; and mine existence is as nothing before thee. The universe; every man living is vanity.

⁴ Man is like vanity, his days glide away like a shadow.

¹⁸ Let thy fountain of water be appropriate to thyself; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. ¹⁹ Let thy loving hind and graceful fawn converse with thee; and let her be accounted peculiarly thine, and be with thee on all occasions. For ravished with her love thou wilt become a numerous family.

²² He who hath found a good wife hath found favour, and hath received joy from God. He who putteth away a good wife, putteth away good things; but he who retaineth an adulteress is foolish and wicked.

¹⁴ Fathers bequeath houses and wealth to children; but the Lord accommodateth a wife to a husband.

¹⁰ And whatever mine eyes desired I withheld not from them, nor did I restrain my heart from all my pleasure. Because my heart had been gladdened with all my labour, [now this was my portion from all my labour]

²⁴ [a] Hath not a man something good which he can eat and drink and which he can point out to his soul as a good by his labour? [b] With respect to that I saw indeed that even this is from the hand of God;

¹³ [I mean in regard to every man who eateth and drinketh, and can see good in all his labour] if there is not a gift of God that he may be made glad and do good in his life.

²² So I saw that there is nothing good in the works of man, but that by which he can be made glad; for that is his portion, for who will bring him to see what will be after him?

¹⁸ Behold I have seen a good which is comely, namely to eat and drink, and to have a good enjoyment in all the labour with which one toileth under the sun, the number of the days of his life which God hath given him; for this is his portion.

¹² Doth any one know what is good for man in this life? All the days of his life of vanity he hath indeed done these things under a shade; is there any who can tell him what will be after him under the sun?

¹⁵ In the days of my vanity I took a view of all classes. Here is a righteous man perishing for his righteous act: there a wicked man continuing in his wickedness.

¹⁵ Now did not he who had the residue of spirit, do right? Yet you have said, "What else but a seed doth God require?" But keep this in your mind, "Thou must not forsake the wife of thy youth."