Ecclesiastes 5:17

Which verses does Ecclesiastes 5:17 point to?

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1. Psalm 127:25 votes

   In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.

2. Genesis 3:172 votes

   And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

3. 1 Kings 17:122 votes

   But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

4. 2 Kings 1:22 votes

   Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”

5. 2 Kings 1:62 votes

   They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”

6. 2 Kings 5:272 votes

   Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.

7. 2 Chronicles 16:10–122 votes

   Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people. Now the acts of Asa, from beginning to end, are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. …

8. 2 Chronicles 24:24–252 votes

   Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army. Because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, judgment was executed on Joash. And when the Arameans had withdrawn, they left Joash severely wounded. His own servants conspired against him for shedding the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

9. Job 21:252 votes

   Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

10. Psalm 78:332 votes

    So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

11. Psalm 90:7–112 votes
12. Psalm 102:92 votes
13. Proverbs 1:27–292 votes
14. Ezekiel 4:16–172 votes
15. Acts 12:232 votes
16. 1 Corinthians 11:30–322 votes

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 5:17?

Ranked by reader votes.

• Job 5:7 7
• Genesis 3:17 3
• Psalm 13:2 3
• Ecclesiastes 2:22 3
• 1 Samuel 2:9 2
• Ecclesiastes 6:3 2
• Ecclesiastes 7:15 2