Ecclesiastes 3:12

American Standard Version

I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.

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Ecclesiastes 3:12 in other translations

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

Ecclesiastes 3:12 · World English Bible

Ecclesiastes 3:12 in context

  1. 10I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
  2. 11He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.
  3. 12I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.
  4. 13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
  5. 14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done it, that men should fear before him.

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