Devine Scripture

Ecclesiastes 2:10

Ecclesiastes chapter 2 · verse 10 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

Context

v.9So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

v.10This passage

v.11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 3:6

    And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:22

    For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

  • Psalms 128:2

    For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

  • Ecclesiastes 6:9

    Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Psalms 119:37

    Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.

  • Proverbs 23:5

    Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? Forrichescertainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.