Ecclesiastes 3:22

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What does Ecclesiastes 3:22 mean?

Ecclesiastes 3:22 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 3:22

• Ecclesiastes 2:24

  There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

• Ecclesiastes 3:11-12

  He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

• Ecclesiastes 8:7

  For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

• Ecclesiastes 6:12

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

• Ecclesiastes 10:14

  A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

• Ecclesiastes 11:9

  Rejoice, 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.

• Philippians 4:4-5

  Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

• Ecclesiastes 2:10-11

  And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

• Deuteronomy 12:7

  And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

• Ecclesiastes 5:18-20

  Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion. Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God. For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

• Ecclesiastes 8:15

  Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

• Daniel 12:13

  But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

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Context

• Ecclesiastes 3:21

  Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

• Ecclesiastes 3:22

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

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