Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Go--eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.
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.
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.
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 What they loved and hated, as well as what they desired, has already perished. They no longer have any share in what is done under the sun. 7 Go--eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds. 8 Always be clothed in white garments, and never let your head lack oil!
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:15
So I recommend enjoyment. For there [is] nothing better for man under the sun than to eat and to drink and to rejoice. This will accompany him in his toil the days of his life that God gives to him under the sun.
Genesis 4:4-5
and Abel also brought [an offering] from {the choicest firstlings of his flock}. And Yahweh looked with favor to Abel and to his offering,
Genesis 12:19
Why did you say 'She [is] my sister,' so that I took her to myself as a wife? Now then, here [is] your wife. Take her and go."
Exodus 24:8-11
And Moses took the blood and sprinkled [it] on the people, and he said, "Look, the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you in accordance with all these words."
Deuteronomy 12:7
And you shall eat there {before} Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice {in all your endeavors}, you and your family [in] which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 12:12
And you shall rejoice {before} Yahweh your God, you and your sons and your daughters and your slaves and your slave women and the Levite who [is] in your {towns}, because there is not for him a plot of ground and an inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 16:14-15
and you shall rejoice at your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite and the orphan and the widow that [are] in your {towns}.
1 Kings 8:66
On the eighth day, he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and they went to their tents rejoicing and {in good spirits} because of all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.
1 Chronicles 16:1-3
And they brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God.
1 Chronicles 29:21-23
And they offered sacrifices to Yahweh, and on that next day they offered burnt offerings to Yahweh: one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, one thousand lambs, with their libations and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:23-27
Then the whole assembly decided to make seven more days [of feasting], so they made seven [more] days with joy,
Nehemiah 8:10-12
Then he said to them, "Go, eat festive food and drink sweet drinks, and send a share to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our lord. Do not be grieved because the joy of Yahweh is your refuge."
Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and {find delight} in his toil. For I also realized that this [is] from the hand of God!
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
So I realized that there is {nothing better} for them than to {rejoice and enjoy themselves} during their lives.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Look! I have discovered what is good and fitting: to eat and to drink and {to enjoy} all [the fruit of] the toil with which one toils under the sun during the number of the days of his life that God gives to him--for this [is] his lot.
Ecclesiastes 10:19
{Feasts are held for celebration}, wine cheers the living, and money answers everything.
Mark 7:29
And he said to her, "Because of this statement, go! The demon has gone out of your daughter."
Luke 11:41
But give [as] charitable giving the things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.
John 4:50
Jesus said to him, "Go, your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed.
Acts 10:35
but in every nation the one who fears him and who does what is right is acceptable to him.