Verse 10

And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 3:22 : 22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?
  • Eccl 5:18 : 18 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.
  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.
  • Ps 128:2 : 2 You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.
  • Eccl 2:22 : 22 What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
  • Eccl 6:9 : 9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
  • Judg 14:2 : 2 And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.
  • Job 31:1 : 1 I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.