Ecclesiastes 2:25
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Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

because who can eat and who can enjoy life apart from Him?

New American Standard Bible

For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him?

King James Version

For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

International Standard Version

for who can eat or enjoy life apart from him?

A Conservative Version

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, without him?

American Standard Version

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

Amplified

For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him?

Bible in Basic English

Who may take food or have pleasure without him?

Darby Translation

For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?

Julia Smith Translation

For who shall eat, and who shall hasten forth above me?

King James 2000

For who can eat, or who else can have enjoyment, more than I?

Lexham Expanded Bible

For who can eat [and drink], and who can enjoy [life] apart from him?

Modern King James verseion

For who can eat, or who can enjoy, apart from me?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For who will eat or go more lustily to his work than I?

NET Bible

For no one can eat and drink or experience joy apart from him.

New Heart English Bible

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, apart from him?

The Emphasized Bible

For who could eat and who could enjoy, so well as I?

Webster

For who can eat, or who else can hasten to it more than I?

World English Bible

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

Youngs Literal Translation

For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

Themes

Goodness » Good people

Happiness/joy » Who God gives joy to

Knowledge » Who God gives knowledge to

Wisdom » The lord giving wisdom

Wisdom » Who God gives wisdom to

Topics

Being Happy And Enjoying Life

Enjoying Life

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For who can eat
H398
אכל 
'akal 
eat, devour, consume,
Usage: 809

or who else can hasten
H2363
חוּשׁ 
Chuwsh 
haste, ready
Usage: 19

hereunto, more
H2351
חץ חוּץ 
Chuwts 
without, street, abroad, out, outside, fields, forth, highways, Kirjathhuzoth , more, out of, outward, utter
Usage: 164

Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 2:25

Verse Info

Context Readings

Is There Real Happiness In Life?

24 There is nothing better for man than to eat, drink, and enjoy his work. I have seen that even this is from God’s hand, 25 because who can eat and who can enjoy life apart from Him? 26 For to the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.


Other Readings

No

Cross References

1 Kings 4:21-24

Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines and as far as the border of Egypt. They offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

Ecclesiastes 2:1-12

I said to myself, “Go ahead, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good.” But it turned out to be futile.

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