Ecclesiastes 2:22 Cross References - Coverdale

²² For what getteth a ma of all ye labor & trauayle of his mynde, yt he taketh vnder the Sonne,

² Excepte the LORDE kepe the cite, the watchman waketh but in vayne.

²⁶ A troublous soule disquyeteth hir selfe, for hir owne mouth hath brought her therto.

³ For what els hath a ma, of all the labor yt he taketh vnder the Sonne?

⁹ What hath a ma els (that doth eny thinge) but weerynesse and laboure?

⁶ One handfull (saieth he) is better wt rest, the both ye handes full with labor and trauayle.

⁸ There is one man, no mo but himself alone, hauynge nether childe ner brother: yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches, (yet doth he not remembre himself, & saye:) For whom do I take soch trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume awaye my lyfe? This is also a vayne and miserable thinge.

¹⁰ He that loueth money, wil neuer be satisfied with money: and who so delyteth in riches, shal haue no profit therof. Is not this also a vayne thinge? ¹¹ Where as many riches are, there are many also that spende them awaye. And what pleasure more hath he that possesseth them, sauynge that he maye loke vpon them with his eyes?

¹⁷ All the daies of his life also must he eate in the darcke, with greate carefulnesse, sicknesse & sorow.

⁷ All the laboure that a man taketh, is for himself, and yet his desyre is neuer fylled after his mynde. ⁸ For what hath the wyse more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore, that he knoweth to walke before the lyuynge?

¹⁵ Therfore I commende gladnesse, because a man hath no better thinge vnder the Sonne, then to eate and drynke, and to be mery: for that shal he haue of his laboure all the daies of his life, which God geueth him vnder the Sonne.+

¹¹ Geue vs this daye oure dayly bred.

²⁵ Therfore I saye vnto you: be not ye carefull for your lyfe, what ye shall eate, or what ye shall drinke: nor yet for youre body, what ye shal put on. Ys not the lyfe more worth the meate, and the body more of value then raymet?

³⁴ Care not then for the morow, for the morow shall care for it self: Euery daye hath ynough of his owne trauayll.

²⁶ What helpeth it a man though he wanne the whole worlde, and yet suffred harme in his soule? Or what can a man geue, to redeme his soule withall?

²² But he sayde vnto his disciples: Therfore I saye vnto you: Take ye no thought for youre life, what ye shal eate: nether for youre body, what ye shal put on.

²⁹ Axe not ye therfore what ye shal eate, or what ye shal drynke, and clymme not vp an hye:

⁶ Be not carefull, but in all thinges let yor peticions in prayer and supplicacion, with geuynge of thankes be knowne before God.

⁸ Whan we haue fode and rayment, let vs therwith be content.

⁷ Cast all youre care on him, for he careth for you.