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Ecclesiastes 5:18

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 18 This is what I have seen to be good and proper: that one should eat and drink and find enjoyment for all the hard work+ at which he toils under the sun during the few days of life that the true God has given him, for that is his reward.*+

Ecclesiastes 5:18

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 18 This is what I have seen to be good and proper: that one should eat and drink and find enjoyment for all the hard work+ at which he toils under the sun during the few days of life that the true God has given him, for that is his reward.*+

Ecclesiastes 5:18

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 18 Look! The best thing that I myself have seen, which is pretty, is that one should eat and drink and see good for all his hard work+ with which he works hard under the sun for the number of the days of his life that the [true] God has given him, for that is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

The Bible in Living English
- 18 * it is best that one should turn his attention to eating and drinking and seeing good by all his trouble that he takes under the sun in such time for living as God has given him, because that is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

American Standard Version
- 18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, wherein he laboreth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for this is his portion.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

The Emphasized Bible
- 18 Lo! what I myself have seen—Better that it should be excellent to eat and to drink and to see blessedness in all one’s toil wherein one toileth under the sun for the number of the days of his life in that God hath given it him, for that is his portion: