19A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry: but money answers all things.


In Context

16 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

17 Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

18 By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house drops through.

19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry: but money answers all things.

20 Curse not the king, no not in your thought; and curse not the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.

Ecclesiastes 10:19 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all [things. ]

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:19For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may feast: and all things obey money.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and money answereth all things.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh life merry; but money answereth everything.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life: and money answereth all things.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:19For mirth they are making a feast, And wine maketh life joyful, And the silver answereth with all.