Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted thy works.
New American Standard Bible
Go then,
King James Version
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Holman Bible
Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works.
International Standard Version
Go ahead and enjoy your meals as you eat. Drink your wine with a joyful attitude, because God already has approved your actions.
American Standard Version
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
Amplified
Go your way, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a cheerful heart [if you are righteous, wise, and in the hands of God]; for God has already approved and accepted your works.
Bible in Basic English
Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.
Darby Translation
Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
Julia Smith Translation
Go eat in joy thy bread, and drink thy wine in a good heart; for already God was satisfied with thy works.
King James 2000
Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Go--eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.
Modern King James verseion
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now is pleased with your works.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Go thou thy way then, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness, for thy works please God.
NET Bible
Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.
New Heart English Bible
Go your way?eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
The Emphasized Bible
Go thy way - eat, with gladness, thy food, and drink, with a happy heart, thy wine, - when already God is well pleased with thy works.
Webster
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
World English Bible
Go your way -- eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
Youngs Literal Translation
Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.
Themes
Deeds » Doing all things with might
Epicureans » Worldly pleasure sought by the epicureans as the chief aim of life
Topics
Interlinear
Yalak
Lechem
Towb
Leb
'elohiym
Ratsah
References
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 9:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Enjoy Life While It Lasts
6 As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, has perished long ago, nor have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun. 7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted thy works. 8 Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:15
Then I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be cheerful. For that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
Genesis 4:4-5
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat of it. And LORD had respect to Abel and to his offering,
Genesis 12:19
Why did thou say, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore behold thy wife. Take her, and go thy way.
Exodus 24:8-11
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that LORD has made with you concerning all these words.
Deuteronomy 12:7
And there ye shall eat before LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand to, ye and your households, in which LORD thy God has blessed thee.
Deuteronomy 12:12
And ye shall rejoice before LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite who is within your gates--inasmuch as he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 16:14-15
And thou shall rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates.
1 Kings 8:66
On the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that LORD had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.
1 Chronicles 16:1-3
And they brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it. And they offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before God.
1 Chronicles 29:21-23
And they sacrificed sacrifices to LORD, and offered burnt-offerings to LORD on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink-offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for
2 Chronicles 30:23-27
And the whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days. And they kept [those] seven days with gladness.
Nehemiah 8:10-12
Then he said to them, Go your way, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our LORD; neither be ye grieved, for the joy of LORD is your strength.
Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be fitting is [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor in which he labors under the sun all the days of his life which God has given him, for this is his p
Ecclesiastes 10:19
A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes glad the life, and money answers all things.
Mark 7:29
And he said to her, Because of this saying, go thou. The demon has gone out of thy daughter.
Luke 11:41
But give compassion, things that are inside, and behold, all things are clean to you.
John 4:50
Jesus says to him, Go, thy son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and he departed.
Acts 10:35
but in every nation, he who fears him, and works righteousness, is acceptable to him.