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


In Context

4 For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

6 Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

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

8 Let your garments be always white, and don't let your head lack oil.

9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:7Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do.

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 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.