Ecclesiastes 6:9 Cross References
Ecclesiastes 6:9
9: Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless; it is like chasing the wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
- Everything under the sun is meaningless, like chasing the wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
- Even so, I have noticed one thing, at least, that is good. It is good for people to eat well, drink a good glass of wine, and enjoy their work--whatever they do under the sun--for however long God lets them live.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
- Then I observed that most people are motivated to success by their envy of their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless, like chasing the wind.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
- Young man, it's wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do.
Ecclesiastes 3:12
- So I concluded that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to enjoy themselves as long as they can.
- And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
- "Everything is meaningless," says the Teacher, "utterly meaningless!"
Ecclesiastes 2:11
- But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless. It was like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.
Job 31:7
- If I have strayed from his pathway, or if my heart has lusted for what my eyes have seen, or if I am guilty of any other sin,
Proverbs 30:15
- The leech has two suckers that cry out, "More, more!" There are three other things--no, four!--that are never satisfied:
- the grave, the barren womb, the thirsty desert, the blazing fire.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
- So what do people get for all their hard work?
- Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night they cannot rest. It is all utterly meaningless.
- So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that this pleasure is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 6:2
- God gives great wealth and honor to some people and gives them everything they could ever want, but then he doesn't give them the health to enjoy it. They die, and others get it all! This is meaningless--a sickening tragedy.
Jeremiah 2:20
- Long ago I broke your yoke and tore away the chains of your slavery, but still you would not obey me. On every hill and under every green tree, you have prostituted yourselves by bowing down to idols.