Ecclesiastes 11:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Sweet also `is' the light, And good for the eyes to see the sun.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 7:11 : 11 Wisdom `is' good with an inheritance, And an advantage `it is' to those beholding the sun.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.
  • Job 33:28 : 28 He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'
  • 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, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 For a sun and a shield `is' Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.
  • Prov 15:30 : 30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart, A good report maketh fat the bone.
  • Prov 29:13 : 13 The poor and the man of frauds have met together, Jehovah is enlightening the eyes of them both.
  • Eccl 6:5 : 5 Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.

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  • Eccl 11:8-10
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    80%

    8But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming `is' vanity.

    9Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

    10And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age `are' vanity!

  • Eccl 7:11
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    11Wisdom `is' good with an inheritance, And an advantage `it is' to those beholding the sun.

  • Eccl 12:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.'

    2While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.

  • Job 31:26
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    26If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,

  • Eccl 1:5
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    5Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.

  • Eccl 5:17-18
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    17Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

    18Lo, that which I have seen: `It is' good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it `is' his portion.

  • Eccl 7:14
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    14In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

  • Eccl 8:15-16
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    15And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

    16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

  • Job 11:17
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    17And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest -- as the morning thou art.

  • Ps 97:11
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    11Light `is' sown for the righteous, And for the upright of heart -- joy.

  • Eccl 11:6
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    6In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike `are' good.

  • Eccl 3:12-13
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    12I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

    13yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it `is' a gift of God.

  • Eccl 6:9
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    9Better `is' the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

    12For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

  • Job 37:21
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    21And now, they have not seen the light, Bright it `is' in the clouds, And the wind hath passed by and cleanseth them.

  • Eccl 4:3
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    3And better than both of them `is' he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:24-26
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    24There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it `is' from the hand of God.

    25For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

    26For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 9:9
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    9See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it `is' thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

    14The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

  • Eccl 6:5
    72%

    5Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.

  • Prov 15:30
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    30The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart, A good report maketh fat the bone.

  • Eccl 4:7
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    7And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

  • Luke 11:33-34
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    71%

    33`And no one having lighted a lamp, doth put `it' in a secret place, nor under the measure, but on the lamp-stand, that those coming in may behold the light.

    34`The lamp of the body is the eye, when then thine eye may be simple, thy whole body also is lightened; and when it may be evil, thy body also is darkened;

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

    11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

  • Ps 74:16
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    16Thine `is' the day, also Thine `is' the night, Thou hast prepared a light giver -- the sun.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

  • Eccl 9:7
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    7Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.

  • Eccl 5:20
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    20For he doth not much remember the days of his life, for God is answering through the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 1:3
    70%

    3What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

  • Job 29:3
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    3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk `through' darkness.

  • Job 17:12
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    12Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it `is' great on man:

  • Job 3:20
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    20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

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

  • Ps 36:9
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    9For with Thee `is' a fountain of life, In Thy light we see light.

  • Luke 11:36
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    36if then thy whole body is lightened, not having any part darkened, the whole shall be lightened, as when the lamp by the brightness may give thee light.'

  • Ps 4:6
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    6Many are saying, `Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah,

  • Eccl 7:3
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    3Better `is' sorrow than laughter, For by the sadness of the face the heart becometh better.