8Let your garments be always white, and don't let your head lack oil.


In Context

5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

6 Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

7 Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

8 Let your garments be always white, and don't let your head lack oil.

9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Ecclesiastes 9:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:8Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:8Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:8At all times let thy garments be white, and let not oil depart from thy head.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:8Let thy garments be always white; and let not thy head lack oil.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:8Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:8Let thy garments be always white; and let not thy head lack ointment.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:8Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:8At all times let thy garments be white, and let not perfume be lacking on thy head.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:8Let your garments be always white; and let your head lack no ointment.