Ecc Ecclesiastes, chapter Ecclesiastes, chapter 2
Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God. Ecc 3:12
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KJV (66 books)
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
ASV
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
BSB
Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.
FBV
So what's the best thing to do? Eat, drink, and enjoy your work, recognizing as I did that these things are given to us by God,
GNV
There is no profit to man: but that he eate, and drinke, and delight his soule with the profit of his labour: I saw also this, that it was of the hand of God.
JPS
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy pleasure for his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
LSV
There is nothing good in a man who eats, and has drunk, and has shown his soul good in his labor. This also I have seen that it [is] from the hand of God.
NASB
There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink, and show himself some good in his trouble. This too I have seen, that it is from the hand of God. NASB 2020
NIV (US)
A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,
NMV
[There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].
OJB
There is nothing better for adam, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his nefesh find satisfaction in his amal. Also this I saw; even this was from the Yad HaElohim.
RV
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
T4T
So I decided that the best thing that we can do is to enjoy what we eat and drink, and also enjoy our work. And I realized that those things are what God intends for us.