✦ Proverbs 15:21 Old Testament
Folly is joy to one who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding walks a straight path.
✦ Proverbs 15:23 Old Testament
A man takes joy in a fitting reply— and how good is a timely word!
✦ Proverbs 17:21 Old Testament
A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
✦ Proverbs 17:22 Old Testament
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
✦ Proverbs 21:15 Old Testament
Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.
✦ Proverbs 27:9 Old Testament
Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend is counsel to the soul.
✦ Proverbs 27:11 Old Testament
Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, so that I can answer him who taunts me.
✦ Proverbs 29:3 Old Testament
A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
✦ Ecclesiastes 2:1 Old Testament
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.
✦ Ecclesiastes 2:24 Old Testament
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.
✦ Ecclesiastes 2:25 Old Testament
For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment?
✦ Ecclesiastes 2:26 Old Testament
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
✦ Ecclesiastes 3:22 Old Testament
I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
✦ Ecclesiastes 4:8 Old Testament
There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.
✦ Ecclesiastes 5:19 Old Testament
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.
✦ Ecclesiastes 5:20 Old Testament
For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.
✦ Ecclesiastes 6:2 Old Testament
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.
✦ Ecclesiastes 6:6 Old Testament
even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?
✦ Ecclesiastes 7:14 Old Testament
In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
✦ Ecclesiastes 8:15 Old Testament
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.
✦ Ecclesiastes 9:7 Old Testament
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
✦ Ecclesiastes 9:9 Old Testament
Enjoy 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.
✦ Isaiah 3:10 Old Testament
Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
✦ Isaiah 9:3 Old Testament
You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.
✦ Isaiah 12:3 Old Testament
With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,