“Live 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.”
— WEB
Ecclesiastes 9:9
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“Live 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.”
— KJV
“Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.”
— ASV
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Commentary
wife . . . lovest--godly and true love, opposed to the "snares" of the "thousand" concubines (Ecc 7:26, Ecc 7:28), "among" whom Solomon could not find the true love which joins one man to one woman (Pro 5:15, Pro 5:18-19; Pro 18:22; Pro 19:14).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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