Ecclesiastes 9:9

WEB

⁹Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

KJV

⁹Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

BSB

⁹Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting ^[+] life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.

FBV

⁹^[+] Enjoy life with the wife that you love—the one God gave you—during all the days of this brief life, all these passing days whose meaning is so hard to understand as you work here on earth.

Extra References

Proverbs 5:18-19

¹⁸Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. ¹⁹A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

Ecclesiastes 2:10

¹⁰Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Malachi 2:15

¹⁵Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

¹²For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:13

¹³Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Proverbs 18:22

²²Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

¹⁸Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

Proverbs 19:14

¹⁴House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

²⁴There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:22

²²Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what will be after him?