Ecclesiastes 2:25

In 11 translations

BSB

For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment?Some Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts apart from me or more than I

KJV

For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

WEB

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

ASV

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

LSV

For who eats and who hurries out more than I?

YLT

For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

DBY

For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?

DRC

Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?

GNV

For who could eate, and who could haste to outward things more then I?

JPS

For who will eat, or who will enjoy, if not I?

LXXE

For who shall eat, or who shall drink, without him?

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WLC

כִּ֣י מִ֥י יֹאכַ֛ל וּמִ֥י יָח֖וּשׁ ח֥וּץ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

LXX-Br

Ὅτι τίς φάγεται καὶ τίς πίεται πάρεξ αὐτοῦ;

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Cross-references most cited first

• Ecclesiastes 2:1–12I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile. I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?” I sought to cheer my body with…
• 1 Kings 4:21–24And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. Solomon’s…

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