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Ecclesiastes 9:7-9 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 9 · verses 7–9
7Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. 8Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. 9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.Ecclesiastes 9:7-9 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 9:7-9 in context
5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
7Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
8Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
11I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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- acceptethrâtsâhto be pleased withH7521 →
- garmentsbegeda coveringH899 →
- joyfullyrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- portionchêleqproperly, smoothnessH2506 →
- alwaysʻêthtime, especially now, when, etcH6256 →
- lovestʼâhabto have affection forH157 →
- vanityhebelemptiness or vanityH1892 →
- labourʻâmâltoilH5999 →
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Solomon, in a fret, had praised the dead more than the living (Ecc 4:2); but here, considering the advantages of life to prepare for death and make sure the hope of a better life, he seems to be of another mind. I. He shows the advantages which the living have above those that are dead, Ecc 9:4-6. 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-10