King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 3:12
“I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 3
10
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11
He hath made every [thing] beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
12
I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13
And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.
14
I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.
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