King James Version
Ecclesiastes 9:7 in the King James Version says “Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.” — study this verse from Ecclesiastes chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.”
Ecclesiastes 9:7 · KJV
For 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.
Also 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.
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
Live 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. Live: Heb. See, or, Enjoy life
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Go thy way”
H3212to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
“heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
“with a merry”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“now”
H3528properly, extent of time, i.e., a great while; hence, long ago, formerly, hitherto
“for God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc
“thy works”
H4639an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
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