7Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do.


In Context

4 Anyone who is among the living has hope -even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.

6 Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.

7 Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do.

8 Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil.

9 Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun- all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:7Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:7Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:7Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:7Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:7Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:7Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:7Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:7Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:7Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works.