Catholic Public Domain Version
"So then, go and eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with gladness. For your works are pleasing to God. "
— Ecclesiastes 9:7, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.”
“Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works. ”
“Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.”
“Life is Brief, so Cherish its Joys Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.”
“Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.”
“Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.”
“Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.”
There is no one who lives forever, or who even has confidence in this regard. A living dog is better than a dead lion.
For the living know that they themselves will die, yet truly the dead know nothing anymore, nor do they have any recompense. For the memory of them is forgotten.
Likewise, love and hatred and envy have all perished together, nor have they any place in this age and in the work which is done under the sun.
So then, go and eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with gladness. For your works are pleasing to God.
Let your garments be white at all times, and let not oil be absent from your head.
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your uncertain life which have been given to you under the sun, during all the time of your vanity. For this is your portion in life and in your labor, with which you labor under the sun.
Whatever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly. For neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will exist in death, toward which you are hurrying.