13That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil-this is the gift of God.


In Context

10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men.

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

12 I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live.

13 That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil-this is the gift of God.

14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.

15 Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.

Ecclesiastes 3:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:13For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:13yea also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, it is the gift of God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, is the gift of God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:13Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:13yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it is a gift of God.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.