| Ecclesiastes 2:25 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him? (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Who can eat or enjoy themselves without God?(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? |
| ASV: | For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? |
| BBE: | Who may take food or have pleasure without him? |
| DBY: | For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I? |
| ERV: | For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? |
| JPS: | For who will eat, or who will enjoy, if not I? |
| WBS: | For who can eat, or who else can hasten to it more than I? |
| WEB: | For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? |
| YLT: | For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I? |
| Ecclesiastes 2:25 Cross References |
| XREF: | Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 2:26 For to a person who is good in His sight He has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, while to the sinner He has given the task of gathering and collecting so that he may give to one who is good in God's sight. This too is vanity and striving after wind. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 2:25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten {q} [to it], more than I?
(q) Meaning, to pleasures. |
| WES: | 2:25 More than I - Therefore he could best tell whether they were able of themselves, without God's special gift, to yield a man content, in the enjoying of them. Who can pursue them with more diligence, obtain them with more readiness, or embrace them with more greediness? |
| MHC: | 2:18-26 Our hearts are very loth to quit their expectations of great things from the creature; but Solomon came to this at length. The world is a vale of tears, even to those that have much of it. See what fools they are, who make themselves drudges to the world, which affords a man nothing better than subsistence for the body. And the utmost he can attain in this respect is to allow himself a sober, cheerful use thereof, according to his rank and condition. But we must enjoy good in our labour; we must use those things to make us diligent and cheerful in worldly business. And this is the gift of God. Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man, according as he has, or has not, a heart to make a good use of them. To those that are accepted of the Lord, he gives joy and satisfaction in the knowledge and love of him. But to the sinner he allots labour, sorrow, vanity, and vexation, in seeking a worldly portion, which yet afterwards comes into better hands. Let the sinner seriously consider his latter end. To seek a lasting portion in the love of Christ and the blessings it bestows, is the only way to true and satisfying enjoyment even of this present world. |
| CONC: | Apart Eager Eat Eateth Enjoy Enjoyment Hasten Hasteth Hereunto Pleasure |
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