Ecclesiastes 9:7 commands joyful eating and drinking, directly echoing 3:13's call to enjoy life as God's gift.

Ecclesiastes 2:24 repeats the same teaching: eating, drinking, and enjoying work is God's gift — a direct parallel.

Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 expands on the same idea — enjoying toil and possessions as God's gift — reinforcing 3:13.

Ecclesiastes 6:2 contrasts: God gives wealth but not the ability to enjoy — opposite of 3:13's gift of enjoyment.

Ecclesiastes 9:9 encourages enjoying life with one's wife as one's portion in toil — extends the same principle to relationships.

Ecclesiastes 5:19 repeats nearly the same idea: God gives wealth and power to enjoy it — a gift to rejoice in toil.

Ecclesiastes 8:15 directly commends eating, drinking, and joy as one's portion in toil — essentially the same teaching.

Ecclesiastes 11:8 echoes the call to enjoy life but adds a reminder to remember days of darkness, building on the same theme.

Ecclesiastes 6:9 contrasts present enjoyment ('sight of the eyes') with restless desire — a related call to contentment.

Deuteronomy 28:31 continues curses of losing food and livestock — opposing 3:13's promise of enjoyment from God.

Isaiah 65:21-23 envisions a future where people build and eat from their own vineyards — no labor in vain, fulfilling the ideal.

Psalm 128:2 promises eating the fruit of your hands — a direct blessing on labor, echoing the gift of God in Ecclesiastes.

Judges 6:3-6 describes Midianites destroying crops and livestock — the opposite of enjoying the fruit of one's labor.

Deuteronomy 28:30 describes the curse of not enjoying what you build — the opposite of 3:13's gift of enjoyment.

Nehemiah 8:10 commands eating rich food and drinking sweet wine because 'the joy of the Lord is your strength' — similar joy as gift.

1 Timothy 6:8 teaches contentment with food and clothing, directly paralleling the satisfaction in eat and drink from Ecclesiastes.

1 Corinthians 7:31 advises using the world without being engrossed, contrasting Ecclesiastes' full enjoyment of toil as a gift.