 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.  A Commentary on Ecclesiastes - Pàgina 18per Thomas Pelham Dale - 1873 - 92 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Edward Robinson - 1846 - 810 pàgines
...outlandish women was no place to look for a virilf<nu wife, a confiding and faithful botom companion. nothing better for a man than that he should eat and...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor." Chap. 2: 15, 24. When he " considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and... | |
 | 1846 - 792 pàgines
...outlandish women was no place to look for a riitu out wife, a confiding and faithful bosom companion. nothing better for a man than that he should eat and...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor." Chap. 2: 15,24. When he " considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1846 - 1102 pàgines
...sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 H p trol and restraint of conscience and the law of God ; 10 should make his soul enjoy good in his » Chap. i. 3 ; iii. 9. ° Job v. 7 ; xiv. 1. 1 Chap. iii.... | |
 | John Stow - 1847 - 1142 pàgines
...the chastisement it would inflict. From the stores of his reflective wisdom the Sapient Solomon said, e, That Judgeth me, is The LORD. Therefore judge nothing...Bring to Light the hidden things of darkness, and will : but in conclusion he adds, This also is vanity andvexation of Spirit — Eccles. ¡i. 24, 26 —... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1847 - 690 pàgines
...great and singular merit ! Long before the son of Sirach, Solomon had 516 spoken to the same effect : " there is nothing better for a man than that he should...drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in its labour. This also I saw that it was from the hand of God." " Go thy way said the wisest of monarchs... | |
 | Carl von Linné - 2001 - 516 pàgines
...better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion. Ecclesiastes 2: 24: There is nothing better for a man, than that he should...This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. Ecclesiastes 3: 13: That every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, is the... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 pàgines
...are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. There is nothing better for a man than that he should...This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto more than I? For God giveth to a man that is good... | |
 | Jane H. M. Taylor - 2001 - 258 pàgines
...life: 'nonne melius est comedere et bibere et estendere animae suae bona de laboribus suis' (2, 24) ('There is nothing better for a man, than that he...he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour'). But, of course, Villon is misappropriating, at least in fifteenthcentury terms: the best authorities... | |
 | Dominic Rudman - 2001 - 234 pàgines
...Qoheleth's view of human joy will be considered in this section. 1. Eccles tastes 2.24-26 The text reads: There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should let himself enjoy the good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. . . For... | |
 | 2000 - 422 pàgines
...time ; and long before, Koheleth had summed up his practical philosophy of life in the maxim that " there is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and make his soul enjoy good in his labour." * Both in hia case and in Omar's this carpe diem philosophy... | |
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