Ecclesiastes 11:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Eccl 7:11 : 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and by it there is profit to those who see the sun.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 That you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends 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 you have delivered my soul from death; will you not 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 those who walk uprightly.
  • Prov 15:30 : 30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and a good report makes the bones healthy.
  • Prov 29:13 : 13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together; the LORD gives light to both their eyes.
  • Eccl 6:5 : 5 Moreover, it has not seen the sun nor known anything: this has more rest than the other.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 11:8-10
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    8But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

    9Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes — but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

    10Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity.

  • Eccl 7:11
    78%

    11Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and by it there is profit to those who see the sun.

  • Eccl 12:1-2
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    77%

    1Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

    2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars are 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
    76%

    5The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it arose.

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

    18Behold, what I have seen: it is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him; for it is his portion.

  • Eccl 7:14
    74%

    14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one against the other, so that man should find nothing after him.

  • Eccl 8:15-16
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    15So I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

  • Job 11:17
    74%

    17And your age shall be brighter than the noonday; you shall shine forth, you 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 your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, either this or that, or whether both will be equally good.

  • Eccl 3:12-13
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    12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives.

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

  • Eccl 6:9
    73%

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

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

    12For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Job 37:21
    72%

    21And now men do not see the bright light which is in the clouds, but the wind passes and clears them.

  • Eccl 4:3
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    3Yes, better is he than both, who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:24-26
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    72%

    24There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God.

    25For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

    26For God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to the man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, only to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 9:9
    72%

    9Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in this life and in your labor which you take under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:13-14
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    13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly just as light excels darkness.

    14The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I myself perceived that the same event happens to them all.

  • Eccl 6:5
    72%

    5Moreover, it has not seen the sun nor known anything: this has more rest than the other.

  • Prov 15:30
    71%

    30The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and a good report makes the bones healthy.

  • Eccl 4:7
    71%

    7Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

  • Luke 11:33-34
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    71%

    33No one, when he has lit a candle, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a candlestick, that those who come in may see the light.

    34The light of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is full of light; but when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    71%

    10And whatever my eyes desired, I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my reward from all my labor.

    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Ps 74:16
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    16The day is Yours, the night also is Yours: You have prepared the light and the sun.

  • Eccl 3:22
    70%

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

  • Eccl 9:7
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    7Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works.

  • Eccl 5:20
    70%

    20For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 1:3
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    3What profit does a man have from all his labor which he does under the sun?

  • Job 29:3
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    3When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

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    12They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

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

  • Job 3:20
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    20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13This wisdom I have seen also under the sun, and it seemed great to me:

  • Ps 36:9
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    9For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.

  • Luke 11:36
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    36If your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle gives you light.

  • Ps 4:6
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    6There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

  • Eccl 7:3
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    3Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.