Ecclesiastes 11:7
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.
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Referenced Verses
- Eccl 7:11 : 11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
- Matt 5:45 : 45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
- Job 33:28 : 28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see 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 you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.
- Ps 84:11 : 11 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
- Prov 15:30 : 30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.
- Prov 29:13 : 13 The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.
- Eccl 6:5 : 5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
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- Eccl 11:8-103 verses80%
8 Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and 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.
10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
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11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
- Eccl 12:1-22 verses77%
1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;"
2 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
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26 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
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5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
- Eccl 5:17-182 verses75%
17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
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14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
- Eccl 8:15-162 verses74%
15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
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17 Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.
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11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
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6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
- Eccl 3:12-132 verses73%
12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.
13 Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
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9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- Eccl 6:11-122 verses73%
11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
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21 Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.
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3 Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
- Eccl 2:24-263 verses72%
24 There 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.
25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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9 Live 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 life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
- Eccl 2:13-142 verses72%
13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
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5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
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30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.
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7 Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
- Luke 11:33-342 verses71%
33 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.
34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
- Eccl 2:10-112 verses71%
10 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
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16 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
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22 Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?
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7 Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
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20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.
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3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
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3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
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12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
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1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:
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20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
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13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.
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9 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
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36 If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light."
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6 Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
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3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.