Ecclesiastes 11:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Eccl 7:11 : 11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun.
Matt 5:45 : 45 that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.
Job 33:28 : 28 He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.
Job 33:30 : 30 To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
Ps 56:13 : 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [Hast thou] not [delivered] my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?
Ps 84:11 : 11 For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Prov 15:30 : 30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart; [And] good tidings make the bones fat.
Prov 29:13 : 13 The poor man and the oppressor meet together; Jehovah lighteneth the eyes of them both.
Eccl 6:5 : 5 moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Eccl 11:8-10
3 verses
80%
8Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Eccl 7:11
78%
11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun.
Eccl 12:1-2
2 verses
77%
1Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
2before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
Job 31:26
77%
26If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
Eccl 1:5
76%
5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.
Eccl 5:17-18
2 verses
75%
17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.
18Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, wherein he laboreth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for this is his portion.
Eccl 7:14
74%
14In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yea, God hath made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything [that shall be] after him.
Eccl 8:15-16
2 verses
74%
15Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.
16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),
Job 11:17
74%
17And [thy] life shall be clearer than the noonday; Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.
Ps 97:11
73%
11Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.
Eccl 11:6
73%
6In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Eccl 3:12-13
2 verses
73%
12I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.
13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
Eccl 6:9
73%
9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Eccl 6:11-12
2 verses
73%
11Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
12For who knoweth what is good for man in [his] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Job 37:21
72%
21And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind passeth, and cleareth them.
Eccl 4:3
72%
3yea, better than them both [did I esteem] him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Eccl 2:24-26
3 verses
72%
24There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
25For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
26For to the man that pleaseth him [God] giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Eccl 9:9
72%
9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.
Eccl 2:13-14
2 verses
72%
13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.
Eccl 6:5
72%
5moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:
Prov 15:30
71%
30The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart; [And] good tidings make the bones fat.
Eccl 4:7
71%
7Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
Luke 11:33-34
2 verses
71%
33No man, when he hath lighted a lamp, putteth it in a cellar, neither under the bushel, but on the stand, that they which enter in may see the light.
34The lamp of thy body is thine eye: {G3767} when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
Eccl 2:10-11
2 verses
71%
10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.
11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ps 74:16
71%
16The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Eccl 3:22
70%
22Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?
Eccl 9:7
70%
7Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
Eccl 5:20
70%
20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.
Eccl 1:3
70%
3What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?
Job 29:3
70%
3When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
Job 17:12
70%
12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.
Eccl 6:1
70%
1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:
Job 3:20
70%
20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
Eccl 9:13
70%
13I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great unto me:
Ps 36:9
70%
9For with thee is the fountain of life: In thy light shall we see light.
Luke 11:36
70%
36If therefore thy whole body be full of light, having no {G5100} part dark, it shall be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining doth give thee light.
Ps 4:6
69%
6Many there are that say, Who will show us [any] good? Jehovah, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Eccl 7:3
69%
3Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad.