Ecclesiastes 11:7
The light is sweete, and a pleasaunt thing is it for the eyes to looke vpon the sunne.
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- Eccl 7:11 : 11 Wysdome with inheritaunce is good, yet better is it with them that without care may beholde the sunne:
- Matt 5:45 : 45 That ye may be the chyldren of your father, which is in heauen. For he maketh his sonne to aryse on the euyll, and on the good, and sendeth rayne on the iust, and on the vniust.
- Job 33:28 : 28 Yea he hath deliuered my soule from destruction, and my lyfe shall see the light.
- Job 33:30 : 30 That he bring backe his soule from the graue to the light, yea the light of the lyuing.
- Ps 56:13 : 13 For thou hast deliuered my soule from death, and my feete from falling: that I may walke before the Lorde in the light of the liuing.
- Ps 84:11 : 11 For God the Lorde is a sunne and a shielde: God geueth grace and worship, he withholdeth no good thyng from them that liue in any perfection.
- Prov 15:30 : 30 The clearnes of the eye reioyseth the heart, & a good name feedeth the bones.
- Prov 29:13 : 13 The poore and the lender meete together, and the Lorde lyghteneth both their eyes.
- Eccl 6:5 : 5 Moreouer he seeth not the sunne, and knoweth not of it: and yet hath he more rest then the other.
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- Eccl 11:8-103 verses80%
8 If a man lyue many yeres, and be glad in them all, let hym remember the dayes of darknesse whiche shalbe manye, and that foloweth: Al thinges shalbe but vanitie.
9 Be glad then (O thou young man) in thy youth, and let thy heart be merie in thy young dayes, folowe the wayes of thyne owne heart, and the lust of thyne eyes, but be thou sure that God shall bryng thee into iudgement for all these thinges.
10 Put away displeasure out of thine heart, and remoue euill from thy body: for chyldhood and youth is but vanitie.
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11 Wysdome with inheritaunce is good, yet better is it with them that without care may beholde the sunne:
- Eccl 12:1-22 verses77%
1 Remember thy maker the sooner in thy youth, or euer the dayes of aduersitie come, and or the yeres drawe nye when thou shalt say, I haue not pleasure in them:
2 Before the sunne, the light, the moone, and starres be darkened, and or the cloudes turne agayne after the rayne:
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26 Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysing of the sunne? or had I the goyng downe of the moone in great reputation?
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5 The sunne aryseth, the sunne goeth downe, and returneth to his place, that he may there ryse vp agayne.
- Eccl 5:17-182 verses75%
17 All the dayes of his lyfe also he dyd eate in the darke, with great carefulnesse, sicknesse, and sorowe.
18 Therfore me thinke it a better and a fayrer thyng, a man to eate and drynke, and to be refresshed of all his labour that he taketh vnder the sunne, all the dayes of his lyfe which God geueth him: for this is his portion.
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14 Use well the tyme of prosperitie, and remember the tyme of misfortune: for God doth so temper the one and the other, that a man can finde nothing els.
- Eccl 8:15-162 verses74%
15 Therfore I commende gladnesse, because a man hath no better thing vnder the sunne, then to eate and drinke, and to be merie: for that shall he haue of his labour, al the dayes of his life which God geueth hym vnder the sunne.
16 And so I applied my minde to learne wysdome, and to knowe the trauayle that is in the worlde, and that of suche a fashion, that I suffred not mine eyes to sleepe neither day nor night.
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17 Then should thy lyfe be as cleare as the noone day, thou shouldest shine forth, and be as the morning.
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11 There is sowen a lyght for the ryghteous: and gladnesse for such as be vpryght of heart.
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6 Ceasse not thou therefore with thy handes to sowe thy seede, whether it be in the morning or in the euening: for thou knowest not whether this or that shall prosper, and if they both take, it is the better.
- Eccl 3:12-132 verses73%
12 So I perceaued that in those thinges there is nothyng better for a man then to be mery, and to do well as long as he lyueth.
13 For all that a man eateth & drynketh, yea whatsoeuer a man enioyeth of all his labour: that same is a gyft of God.
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9 The cleare sight of the eye, is better then that the soule shoulde walke after desires of the lust: Howbeit, this is also a vayne thyng, and a disquietnesse of mynde.
- Eccl 6:11-122 verses73%
11 Many thinges there be that encrease vanitie, and what hath a man els?
12 For who knoweth what is good for man liuing in the dayes of his vayne life, whiche is but a shadowe? Or who wyl tell a man what shall happen after hym vnder the sunne?
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21 For men see not the light that shineth in the cloudes: but the winde passeth and cleanseth them.
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3 Yea him that is yet vnborne, to be better at ease then they both: because he seeth not the miserable workes that are done vnder the sunne.
- Eccl 2:24-263 verses72%
24 Is it not better then for a man to eate and drynke, and his soule to be mery in his labour? yea I sawe that this also was a gift of God.
25 For who wyll eate or go more lustyly to his worke then I?
26 And why? God geueth to the man that is good before hym, wisdome, vnderstandyng, and gladnesse: but vnto the sinner he geueth weerinesse, that he may gather and heape together the thyng that afterwarde shalbe geuen vnto hym whom it pleaseth God: This is nowe a vayne thyng, yea a very disquietnesse and vexation of mynde.
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9 Use thy selfe to liue ioyfully with thy wife whom thou louest all the dayes of thy life whiche is but vayne, that God geueth thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for that is thy portion in this life of al thy labour and trauayle that thou takest vnder the sunne.
- Eccl 2:13-142 verses72%
13 And I sawe that wisdome excelleth foolishnesse, as farre as light doth darknesse.
14 For a wise man hath his eyes in his head, but the foole goeth in darknesse: I perceaued also that they both had one ende.
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5 Moreouer he seeth not the sunne, and knoweth not of it: and yet hath he more rest then the other.
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30 The clearnes of the eye reioyseth the heart, & a good name feedeth the bones.
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7 Moreouer I turned me, and beholde yet another vanitie vnder the sunne.
- Luke 11:33-342 verses71%
33 No man lyghteth a candle, & putteth it in a priuie place, neither vnder a busshell: but on a candlesticke, that they which come in may see the lyght,
34 The lyght of the body, is the eye: Therefore when thyne eye is single, all thy body also shalbe full of lyght. But if thyne eye be euyll, thy body also shalbe full of darknesse.
- Eccl 2:10-112 verses71%
10 And loke whatsoeuer myne eyes desired, I let them haue it: and wherin soeuer my heart delited or had any pleasure, I withhelde it not from it: Thus my heart reioyced in all that I did, and this was my portion of all my trauayle.
11 But when I considered all the workes that my handes had wrought, and all the labour that I had taken therin: lo all was but vanitie and vexation of mynde, and nothing of any value vnder the sunne.
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16 The day is thine, & the nyght is thine: thou hast prepared the light & the sunne.
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22 Wherfore I perceaue that there is nothyng better for a man then to be ioyfull in his labour, for that is his portion: But who wyll bryng hym to see the thyng that shall come after hym?
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7 Go thou thy way then, eate thy bread with ioy, & drinke thy wine with a glad heart, for thy workes please god:
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20 For he thinketh not much howe long he shall lyue, forasmuch as God fylleth his heart with gladnesse.
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3 For what els hath a man of all the labour that he taketh vnder the sunne?
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3 When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse:
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12 Chaunging the night into day, and the light approching into darkenesse.
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1 There is yet a plague vnder the sunne, and it is a generall thyng among men:
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20 Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes?
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13 This wysdome haue I seene also vnder the sunne, and me thought it a great thing:
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9 For with thee is the fountaine of lyfe: and in thy light shall we see light.
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36 If all thy body therfore be cleare, hauyng no part darke, then shall it all be full of lyght, euen as when a candle doth lyght thee with bryghtnes.
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6 There be many that say, who wyll shewe vs any good? O God lift thou vp the light of thy countenaunce vpon vs.
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3 Grauitie is better then to laugh: for when the countenaunce is heauie, the heart is refourmed.