Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 9:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Enjoy Life While It Lasts
6 so that they be neither loved, hated nor envied: neither have they anymore part in the world, in all that is done under the Sun. 7 Go thou thy way then, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness, for thy works please God. 8 Let thy garments be always white, and let thy head want none ointment.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:15
Therefore I commend gladness, because a man hath no better thing under the Sun, than to eat and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall he have of his labour all the days of his life, which God giveth him under the Sun.
Genesis 4:4-5
And Abel, he brought also of the firstlings of his sheep and of the fat of them. And the LORD looked unto Abel and to his offering:
Genesis 12:19
Why saidest thou that she was thy sister, and causedest me to take her to my wife? But now, lo, there is thy wife: take her and be walking."
Exodus 24:8-11
And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, "Behold, this is the blood of the covenant which the LORD hath made with you upon all these words."
Deuteronomy 12:7
And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye lay your hands on, both ye and your households, because the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
Deuteronomy 12:12
And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, both ye, your sons and your daughters, your servants and your maids and the Levite that is within your gates for he hath neither part nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 16:14-15
And thou shalt rejoice in that thy feast; both thou and thy son, thy daughter, thy servant, thy maid, the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are in thy cities.
1 Kings 8:66
And the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the king and went unto their tents joyous and glad in heart for all the goodness that the LORD had showed unto David his servant and to Israel his people.
1 Chronicles 16:1-3
When they had brought in the Ark of God they set it in the tent that David had pitched for it. And they brought burnt sacrifice and peace offerings before God.
1 Chronicles 29:21-23
And they offered offerings unto the LORD. And on the morrow after the said day, they offered in burnt offerings unto the LORD a thousand oxen, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs with their drink offerings.
2 Chronicles 30:23-27
And the whole assembly took counsel to keep seven days more: and they held those seven days with gladness.
Nehemiah 8:10-12
Therefore said he unto them, "Go your way, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send part unto them also that have not prepared themselves: for this day is holy unto our LORD. Be not ye sorry therefore: for the joy of the LORD is your strength."
Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
Is it not better then for a man to eat and drink, and his soul to be merry in his labour? Yea I saw that this also was a gift of God:
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
So I perceived, that in these things there is nothing better for a man, then to be merry and to do well so long as he liveth.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Therefore me think it a better and fairer thing, a man to eat and drink, and to be refreshed of all his labour that he taketh under the Sun all the days of his life which God giveth him: for this is his portion.
Ecclesiastes 10:19
Meat maketh men to laugh, and wine maketh them merry; but unto money are all things obedient.
Mark 7:29
And he said unto her, "For this saying, go thy way, the devil is gone out of thy daughter."
Luke 11:41
Nevertheless, ye give alms of that ye have, and behold: all is clean to you.
John 4:50
Jesus said unto him, "Go thy way, thy son liveth." And the man believed the words that Jesus had spoken unto him, and went his way.
Acts 10:35
but in all people, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.