Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do. New Living Translation So go ahead. Eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, for God approves of this! English Standard Version Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. Berean Standard Bible Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works: King James Bible Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. New King James Version Go, eat your bread with joy, And drink your wine with a merry heart; For God has already accepted your works. New American Standard Bible Go then, eat your bread in happiness, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works. NASB 1995 Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works. NASB 1977 Go then, eat your bread in happiness, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works. Legacy Standard Bible Go then, eat your bread in gladness and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works. Amplified Bible 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. Christian Standard Bible Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works. Holman Christian Standard Bible Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Come, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a good heart, because God is pleased with your works! Brenton Septuagint Translation Go, eat thy bread with mirth, and drink thy wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favourably accepted thy works. Contemporary English Version So be happy and enjoy eating and drinking! God decided long ago that this is what you should do. Douay-Rheims Bible Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God. English Revised Version Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works. GOD'S WORD® Translation Go, enjoy eating your food, and drink your wine cheerfully, because God has already accepted what you've done. Good News Translation Go ahead--eat your food and be happy; drink your wine and be cheerful. It's all right with God. 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. JPS Tanakh 1917 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry heart; For God hath already accepted thy works. Literal Standard Version Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a glad heart, for already has God been pleased with your works. Majority Standard Bible Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works: New American Bible Go, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart, because it is now that God favors 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 Revised Standard Version Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has long ago approved what you do. 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. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Young's 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Enjoy Your Portion in This Life7Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works: 8Let your garments always be white, and never spare the oil for your head.… Cross References Numbers 6:20 The priest shall then wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. This is a holy portion for the priest, in addition to the breast of the wave offering and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine. Ecclesiastes 2:24 Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God. Ecclesiastes 7:14 In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him. Ecclesiastes 8:15 So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun. Ecclesiastes 11:8 So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile. Treasury of Scripture Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works. go Genesis 12:19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. Mark 7:29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. John 4:50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. eat Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God… Ecclesiastes 3:12,13 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life… Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion. for Genesis 4:4,5 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: … Exodus 24:8-11 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words… Luke 11:41 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you. Jump to Previous Accepted Accepteth Already Approved Bread Cheerful Drink Eat Enjoyment Favors Food Glad Gladness Happiness Heart Joy Joyful Merry Pleased Way Wine WorksJump to Next Accepted Accepteth Already Approved Bread Cheerful Drink Eat Enjoyment Favors Food Glad Gladness Happiness Heart Joy Joyful Merry Pleased Way Wine WorksEcclesiastes 9 1. like things happen to good and bad4. there is a necessity of death unto men 7. Comfort is all their portion in this life 11. God's providence rules over all 13. wisdom is better than strength (7) Accepteth.--The thought has been expressed before (Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 8:15), that earthly enjoyment is to be received as given by God's favour.Verses 7-12. - These verses give the application of the facts just mentioned. The inscrutability of the moral government of the world, the uncertainty of life, the condition of the dead, lead to the conclusion again that one should use one's life to the best advantage; and Koheleth repeats his caution concerning the issues and duration of life. Verse 7. - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy. This is not an injunction to lead a selfish life of Epicurean pleasure; but taking the limited view to which he here confines himself, the Preacher inculcates the practical wisdom of looking at the bright side of things; he says in effect (though he takes care afterwards to correct a wrong impression which might be given)," Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die" (1 Corinthians 15:32). We have had the same counsel in Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:12, 13, 22; Ecclesiastes 5:18; Ecclesiastes 8:15. Drink thy wine with a merry heart. Wine was not an accompaniment of meals usually; it -was reserved for feasts and solemn occasions. Bread and wine are here regarded as the necessary means of support and comfort (comp. Ecclesiastes 10:19; Genesis 14:18; 1 Samuel 16:20, etc.). The moderate use of wine is nowhere forbidden; there is no law in the Old Testament against the use of intoxicating drinks; the employment of such fluids as cordials, exhilarating, strengthening and comforting, is often referred to (comp. Judges 9:13; Psalm 104:15; Proverbs 31:6, 7; Ecclus. 31:27, 28). Thus Koheleth's advice, taken even literally, is not contrary to the spirit of his religion. For God now (long ago) accepteth thy works. The "works" are not moral or religious doings, in reward of which God gives temporal blessings, which is plainly opposed to Koheleth's chief contention in all this passage. The works are the eating and drinking just mentioned. By the constitution of man's nature, and by the ordering of Providence, such capacity of enjoyment is allowable, and there need be no scruple in using it. Such things are God's good gifts, and to be received with reverence and thanksgiving; and he who thus employs them is well-pleasing unto the Lord (Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 8:15). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Go,לֵ֣ךְ (lêḵ) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk eat אֱכֹ֤ל (’ĕ·ḵōl) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 398: To eat your bread לַחְמֶ֔ךָ (laḥ·me·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain with joy, בְּשִׂמְחָה֙ (bə·śim·ḥāh) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8057: Blithesomeness, glee and drink וּֽשֲׁתֵ֥ה (ū·šă·ṯêh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 8354: To imbibe your wine יֵינֶ֑ךָ (yê·ne·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3196: Wine, intoxication with a cheerful ט֖וֹב (ṭō·wḇ) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good heart, בְלֶב־ (ḇə·leḇ-) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre for כִּ֣י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction God הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative has already כְבָ֔ר (ḵə·ḇār) Adverb Strong's 3528: Extent of time, a great while, long ago, formerly, hitherto approved רָצָ֥ה (rā·ṣāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7521: To be pleased with, to satisfy a, debt your works: מַעֲשֶֽׂיךָ׃ (ma·‘ă·śe·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property Links Ecclesiastes 9:7 NIVEcclesiastes 9:7 NLT Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV Ecclesiastes 9:7 NASB Ecclesiastes 9:7 KJV Ecclesiastes 9:7 BibleApps.com Ecclesiastes 9:7 Biblia Paralela Ecclesiastes 9:7 Chinese Bible Ecclesiastes 9:7 French Bible Ecclesiastes 9:7 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go your way--eat your bread with joy (Ecclesiast. 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