Ecclesiastes 11:7

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ 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.

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    1¶ Remember 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;

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    26If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness;

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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    11¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?

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