Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? New Living Translation For who can eat or enjoy anything apart from him? English Standard Version for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? Berean Standard Bible For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment? King James Bible For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? New King James Version For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? New American Standard Bible For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him? NASB 1995 For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him? NASB 1977 For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him? Legacy Standard Bible For who can eat and who can have enjoyment outside of Him? Amplified Bible For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him? Christian Standard Bible because who can eat and who can enjoy life apart from him? Holman Christian Standard Bible because who can eat and who can enjoy life apart from Him? American Standard Version For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? Aramaic Bible in Plain English For who is going to eat and who will drink apart from him? Brenton Septuagint Translation For who shall eat, or who shall drink, without him? Contemporary English Version and no one enjoys eating and living more than I do. Douay-Rheims Bible Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I? English Revised Version For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? GOD'S WORD® Translation Who can eat or enjoy themselves without God? Good News Translation How else could you have anything to eat or enjoy yourself at all? International Standard Version for who can eat or enjoy life apart from him? JPS Tanakh 1917 For who will eat, or who will enjoy, if not I? Literal Standard Version For who eats and who hurries out more than I? Majority Standard Bible For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment? New American Bible For who can eat or drink apart from God? NET Bible For no one can eat and drink or experience joy apart from him. New Revised Standard Version for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? New Heart English Bible For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, apart from him? Webster's Bible Translation For who can eat, or who else can hasten to it more than I? World English Bible For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? Young's Literal Translation For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Futility of Work…24Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God. 25For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment? 26To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.… Cross References Ecclesiastes 2:24 Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God. Ecclesiastes 2:26 To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind. Treasury of Scripture For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? who can Ecclesiastes 1:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 1 Kings 4:21-24 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life… Jump to Previous Apart Eager Eat Eateth Enjoy Enjoyment Find Food Hasten Hasteth Hereunto PleasureJump to Next Apart Eager Eat Eateth Enjoy Enjoyment Find Food Hasten Hasteth Hereunto PleasureEcclesiastes 2 1. the vanity of human courses is the work of pleasure12. Though the wise be better than the fool, yet both have one event 18. The vanity of human labor, in leaving it they know not to whom 24. Nothing better than joy in our labor but that is God's gift (25) Hasten.--Habakkuk 1:8. More than I.--There is a various rendering, which has the authority of the LXX., and which has every appearance of being right: "without Him." Verse 25. - For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? This is the translation of the received text. "Eat" means enjoy one's self, as in the preceding verse; "hasten hereunto" implies eager pursuit of pleasure; and Koheleth asks - Who had better opportunity than he for verifying the principle that all depends upon the gift of God? Vulgate, Quis ita devorabit, et deliciis affluet ut ego? The Septuagint had a different reading, which obtains also in the Syriac and Arabic versions, and has been adopted by many modern critics. Instead of מִמֶּנִּי, they read מִמֶּנְּוּ, "without him," i.e. except from God. "For who shall eat or who shall drink without him (πάρεξ αὐτοῦ)?" This merely repeats the thought of the last verse, in agreement with the saying of St. James (James 1:17), "Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, coming down from the Father' of lights." But the received reading, if it admits the rendering of the Authorized Version (which is somewhat doubtful), stands in close connection with the personal remark just preceding, "This also I saw," etc., and is a more sensible confirmation thereof than a tautological observation can be. The next verse carries on the thought that substantial enjoyment is entirely the gift of God, and granted by him as the moral Governor of the world.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּ֣י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction apart from ח֥וּץ (ḥūṣ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors Him, מִמֶּֽנִּי׃ (mim·men·nî) Preposition | first person common singular Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of who מִ֥י (mî) Interrogative Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix can eat יֹאכַ֛ל (yō·ḵal) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 398: To eat and who וּמִ֥י (ū·mî) Conjunctive waw | Interrogative Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix can find enjoyment? יָח֖וּשׁ (yā·ḥūš) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 2363: To hurry, to be eager with excitement, enjoyment Links Ecclesiastes 2:25 NIVEcclesiastes 2:25 NLT Ecclesiastes 2:25 ESV Ecclesiastes 2:25 NASB Ecclesiastes 2:25 KJV Ecclesiastes 2:25 BibleApps.com Ecclesiastes 2:25 Biblia Paralela Ecclesiastes 2:25 Chinese Bible Ecclesiastes 2:25 French Bible Ecclesiastes 2:25 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Ecclesiastes 2:25 For who can eat or who can (Ecclesiast. 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