Ecclesiastes 5:17

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What does Ecclesiastes 5:17 mean?

Ecclesiastes 5:17 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 5:17

• Psalms 127:2

  It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

• 2 Chronicles 24:24-25

  For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash. And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

• Proverbs 1:27-29

  When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:

• Job 21:25

  And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

• 1 Corinthians 11:30-32

  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

• 2 Kings 5:27

  The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

• Acts 12:23

  And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

• 2 Chronicles 16:10-12

  Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time. And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

• Ezekiel 4:16-17

  Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

• 1 Kings 17:12

  And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

• Psalms 78:33

  Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

• Psalms 102:9

  For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

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Context

• Ecclesiastes 5:16

  And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

• Ecclesiastes 5:17

  All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

• Ecclesiastes 5:18

  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.

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