Ecclesiastes 2:22-24
Contemporary English Version
22 What do we really gain from all of our hard work? 23 (A) Our bodies ache during the day, and work is torture. Then at night our thoughts are troubled. It just doesn't make sense.
24 (B) The best thing we can do is to enjoy eating, drinking, and working.[a] I believe these are God's gifts to us,
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- 2.24 The best … working: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-24
New International Version
22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?(A) 23 All their days their work is grief and pain;(B) even at night their minds do not rest.(C) This too is meaningless.
24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink(D) and find satisfaction in their own toil.(E) This too, I see, is from the hand of God,(F)
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