“Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.”
— WEB
Ecclesiastes 9:7
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.”
— KJV
“Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.”
— ASV
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Commentary
Addressed to the "righteous wise," spoken of in Ecc 9:1. Being "in the hand of God," who now accepteth "thy works" in His service, as He has previously accepted thy person (Gen 4:4), thou mayest "eat . . . with a cheerful (not sensually 'merry') heart" (Ecc 3:13; Ecc 5:18; Act 2:46).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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