Ecclesiastes 2:10
What does Ecclesiastes 2:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Ecclesiastes 2:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And 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 · 1611And 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 · 1901And 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And 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,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And 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 from all my labour.
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.
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