Christianity / Protestantism / Ecclesiastes 2:25
Protestantism
English
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?
For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?
For who could eate, and who could haste to outward things more then I?
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, without him?
Copyrighted; free non-commercial distribution For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
Who may take food or have pleasure without him?
For apart from Him,1 who can eat and who can find enjoyment?
- Some Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts apart from me or more than I
For who will eat, or who will enjoy, if not I?
Copyrighted; free non-commercial distribution For who can eat, or who can care for himself better than I?
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
Copyrighted; free non-commercial distribution For who can eat and drink, and who can enjoy life apart from him?1
- The MT reads “more than me,” which is supported by Aramaic Targum and Latin Vulgate, but several medieval Hebrew manuscripts read “from him”
Copyrighted; free non-commercial distribution For who can eat, or who can enjoy, apart from Me?
Copyrighted; non-commercial distribution For who can eat, or who can enjoy, apart from me?
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
For who can eat, or hasten thereunto more than I?
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
For who could eat and who could enjoy, so well as I?
For who can eat, or who else can hasten to it, more than I?
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
For who can eat, or who else can hasten [to it] more than I?
Catholicism
English
Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?
So who will feast and overflow with delights as much as I have?
Eastern Orthodoxy
English
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
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