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In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.

For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the desire of the faithless is violence.

A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

…for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.

Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.

…there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.

For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment?

…and also that every man should eat and drink and find satisfaction in all his labor—this is the gift of God.

The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.

When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?

The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.

Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.

Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.

Furthermore, God has given riches and wealth to every man, and He has enabled him to enjoy them, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in his labor. This is a gift from God.

God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a grievous affliction.

So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:

Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.

Blessed are you, O land whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.

Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits.

I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.

Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.

But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”

Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.

…and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

Aram from the east and Philistia from the west have devoured Israel with open mouths. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.

They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.