Ecclesiastes 2:25
“For who can eate? or who else can hasten hereunto more then I?”
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Ecclesiastes 2:25 Context
23For all his dayes are sorrowes, and his traueile, griefe; yea his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanitie. 24¶ There is nothing better for a man, then that he should eat and drinke, and that he should make his soule enioy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 25For who can eate? or who else can hasten hereunto more then I? 26For God giueth to a man that is good in his sight, wisedome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner hee giueth traueile, to gather and to heape vp that he may giue to him that is good before God: This also is vanitie and vexation of spirit.
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Other Translations for Ecclesiastes 2:25
For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto], more than I?
- King James Version
For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
- American Standard Version (1901)
Who may take food or have pleasure without him?
- Basic English Bible
For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?
- Darby Bible
For who can eat, or who else can hasten to it more than I?
- Webster's Bible
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
- World English Bible
For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?
- Youngs Literal Bible
For who will eat, or who will enjoy, if not I?
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Ecclesiastes 2:25
2:25 More than I - Therefore he could best tell whether they were able of themselves, without God's special gift, to yield a man content, in the enjoying of them. Who can pursue them with more diligence, obtain them with more readiness, or embrace them with more greediness?