Ecclesiastes 11:7

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 7:11 : 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
  • Job 33:28 : 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
  • Job 33:30 : 30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
  • Ps 56:13 : 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD 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 a good report maketh the bones fat.
  • Prov 29:13 : 13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.
  • Eccl 6:5 : 5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

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    8But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet 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 thine 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 childhood and youth are vanity.

  • Eccl 7:11
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    11Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

  • Eccl 12:1-2
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    1Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

    2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

  • Job 31:26
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    26If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

  • Eccl 1:5
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    5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

  • Eccl 5:17-18
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    17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

    18Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

  • Eccl 7:14
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    14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

  • Eccl 8:15-16
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    15Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

    16When I applied mine 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:)

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    17And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

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    11Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

  • Eccl 11:6
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    6In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

  • Eccl 3:12-13
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    12I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

    13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

  • Eccl 6:9
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    9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

    12For who knoweth what is good for man in this 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
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    21And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

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    3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:24-26
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    24There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

    25For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

    26For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight 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 is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 9:9
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    9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:13-14
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    13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

    14The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

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    5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

  • Prov 15:30
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    30The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.

  • Eccl 4:7
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    7Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

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    33No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.

    34The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

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    16The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

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    22Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

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    7Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

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    20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

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    3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

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    3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

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    12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

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    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

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    20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

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    13This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

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    9For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

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    36If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.

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    6There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

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    3Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.