Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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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Yalak
Lechem
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Leb
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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 Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun. 7 Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works. 8 At all times let thy garments be white, and let not perfume be lacking on thy head.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:15
And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.
Genesis 4:4-5
and Abel, he hath brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, even from their fat ones; and Jehovah looketh unto Abel and unto his present,
Genesis 12:19
Why hast thou said, She is my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? and now, lo, thy wife, take and go.'
Exodus 24:8-11
And Moses taketh the blood, and sprinkleth on the people, and saith, 'Lo, the blood of the covenant which Jehovah hath made with you, concerning all these things.'
Deuteronomy 12:7
and ye have eaten there before Jehovah your God, and have rejoiced in every putting forth of your hand, ye and your households, with which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee.
Deuteronomy 12:12
and ye have rejoiced before Jehovah your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your handmaids, and the Levite who is within your gates, for he hath no part and inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 16:14-15
and thou hast rejoiced in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, 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 hath sent the people away, and they bless the king, and go to their tents, rejoicing and glad of heart for all the good that Jehovah hath done to David His servant, and to Israel His people.
1 Chronicles 16:1-3
And they bring in the ark of God, and set it up in the midst of the tent that David hath stretched out for it, and they bring near burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before God;
1 Chronicles 29:21-23
And they sacrifice to Jehovah sacrifices, and cause to ascend burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the morrow of that day, bullocks a thousand, rams a thousand, lambs a thousand, and their oblations, even sacrifices in abundance, for all Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:23-27
And all the assembly take counsel to keep other seven days, and they keep seven days with joy;
Nehemiah 8:10-12
And he saith to them, 'Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and sent portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for to-day is holy to our Lord, and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.'
Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Lo, that which I have seen: It is good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it is his portion.
Ecclesiastes 10:19
For mirth they are making a feast, And wine maketh life joyful, And the silver answereth with all.
Mark 7:29
And he said to her, 'Because of this word go; the demon hath gone forth out of thy daughter;'
Luke 11:41
But what ye have give ye as alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.
John 4:50
Jesus saith to him, 'Be going on; thy son doth live.' And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,
Acts 10:35
but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;