“I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 3 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.