Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 9:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Enjoy Life While It Lasts
6 Also their love, also their hatred, also their envy perished already; and no more portion to them forever in all which was done under the sun. 7 Go eat in joy thy bread, and drink thy wine in a good heart; for already God was satisfied with thy works. 8 In all time thy garments shall be white; and ointment shall not be wanting upon thy head.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:15
And I praised joy, because there is no good to man under the sun but to eat and to drink, and to rejoice: for this shall lodge with him in his labor the days of his life which God gave to him under the sun.
Genesis 4:4-5
And Abel, he also brought in the first-born of his sheep, and their fat. And Jehovah will look to Abel and to his gift
Genesis 12:19
Why saidst thou, She is my sister and I shall take her to me for a wife? and now behold thy wife, take and go.
Exodus 24:8-11
And Moses will take the blood, and sprinkle upon the people, and will say, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah made with you concerning all these words.
Deuteronomy 12:7
And eat there before Jehovah your God, and rejoice in all the stretching forth of your hand, ye and your houses in which Jehovah thy God blessed thee.
Deuteronomy 12:12
And rejoice ye before Jehovah your God, ye, and your sons and your daughters, and your servants, and your maids, and the Levite who is in your gates; for not to him a portion and inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 16:14-15
And rejoice in thy festival, thou and thy son and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, which are in thy gates:
1 Kings 8:66
In the eighth day he sent away the people, and they will bless the king and go to their tents rejoicing and good of heart for all the good which Jehovah did for David his servant and for Israel his people.
1 Chronicles 16:1-3
And they will bring the ark of God and set it in the midst of the tent which David stretched out for it: and they will bring near burnt-offerings and peace before God.
1 Chronicles 29:21-23
And they will sacrifice sacrifices to Jehovah, and they will bring up burnt-offerings to Jehovah for the morrow of that day, a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, a thousand lambs, and their libations, and sacrifices for abundance for all Israel:
2 Chronicles 30:23-27
And all the convocation will take counsel to do other seven days: and they will do seven days with gladness.
Nehemiah 8:10-12
And he will say to them, Go ye; eat fatnesses, and drink sweetnesses, and send portions to him for whom nothing was prepared: for the day is holy to our Lord: and ye shall not grieve, for the joy of Jehovah this is your strength.
Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
Not good in man he shall eat and drink and cause his soul to see good in his labor. Also this I saw that it is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
I knew that no good is in them, but to rejoice and to do good in his life.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold, what I saw: good, which is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he will labor under the sun the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; for this his portion.
Ecclesiastes 10:19
For laughter they make bread, and wine will gladden the living: and silver will answer with all.
Mark 7:29
And he said to her, For this word retire; the demon has gone out of thy daughter.
Luke 11:41
But of the things being, give alms; 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 which Jesus said to him, and he went.
Acts 10:35
But in every nation he fearing him, and working justice, is acceptable to him.