Ecclesiastes 3:22

Which verses does Ecclesiastes 3:22 point to?

The 20 strongest of 21, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

1. Ecclesiastes 2:248 votes

   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.

2. Ecclesiastes 3:11–126 votes

   He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,

3. Ecclesiastes 6:125 votes

   For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

4. Ecclesiastes 8:75 votes

   Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

5. Ecclesiastes 10:145 votes

   Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

6. Ecclesiastes 11:94 votes

   Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

7. Philippians 4:4–54 votes

   Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.

8. Ecclesiastes 2:10–113 votes

   Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

9. Deuteronomy 12:72 votes

   There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

10. Deuteronomy 12:182 votes

    Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,

11. Deuteronomy 26:10–112 votes
12. Deuteronomy 28:472 votes

    Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

13. Job 14:212 votes
14. Ecclesiastes 5:18–202 votes

    Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot. Furthermore, God has given riches and wealth to every man, and He has enabled him to enjoy them, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in his labor. This is a gift from God. …

15. Ecclesiastes 8:152 votes
16. Ecclesiastes 9:7–92 votes

    Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works: Let your garments always be white, and never spare the oil for your head. …

17. Ecclesiastes 9:122 votes
18. Daniel 12:9–102 votes
19. Daniel 12:132 votes
20. Matthew 6:342 votes

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 3:22?

The 10 strongest of 11.

• Ecclesiastes 2:24 17
• Ecclesiastes 5:18 13
• Ecclesiastes 7:14 10
• Ecclesiastes 6:12 7
• Ecclesiastes 2:10 6
• Ecclesiastes 3:12 6
• Ecclesiastes 9:9 5
• Ecclesiastes 10:14 5
• Ecclesiastes 8:15 4
• Ecclesiastes 2:19 3