Ecclesiastes 9:9 Cross References - NSB

⁹ Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. That is your share in this life and in your labor under the sun.

⁵ »Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.

⁴ Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.

¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed. Rejoice with the wife of your youth. ¹⁹ She is like a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Always be delighted with her love.

²² The man who finds a wife finds a good thing. He obtains favor from Jehovah.

¹⁴ Real estate and riches are the inheritance of fathers. A prudent (wise) (sensible) wife is from Jehovah.

¹⁰ Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold joy from my heart. My heart took pleasure in all my work and this was my reward.

²⁴ There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and delight in his work. This also I saw was from the hand of God.

¹³ Every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor. It is the gift of God.

²² I see there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works. That is his portion. Who will bring him to see what will happen after him?

¹⁸ This is what I have seen. It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. He labors under the sun all the days of his life. For God gives this to him as his allotment (inheritance).

¹² Who knows what is good for man in this life? Are all the days of his vain life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after his existence under the sun?

¹⁵ I have seen all things in the days of my vanity. There is a just man who perished in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolonged his life in his wickedness.

¹⁵ »Did God make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. What does God look for but godly descendants? Do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.