 | Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff - Bible - 1870 - 622 pages
...sorrow, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh 24 not rest in the night. This is also vanity. There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make hU soul enjoy good in his 25 labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. For who can... | |
 | William Landels - Bible - 1870 - 266 pages
...no remedy but a relapse into his former habits. His favourite panacea for all the ills of life is, " There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat, drink, and be merry." And the summing up of all his experiments is, "Vanity of vanities, all his vanity... | |
 | Charles Linnaeus Ives - Bible - 1873 - 132 pages
...belly of the wicked shall want." See Jer. L: 19. It enjoys eating and drinking : Eccles. n : 24; " Nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and should make his soul enjoy good in his labor." (Our translators in the margin explain " soul enjoy... | |
 | William Henry B. Proby - 1874 - 96 pages
...business [is] vexation, yea, his mind resteth not even in the night: this also [I say] was vanity. [24.] There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink and cause his soul to see good in his labour. (This also I myself saw, that it [is] from the hand of God,... | |
 | Thomas Tyler - 1874 - 176 pages
...this perfect good, surely it was he. If, however, altering the text, we read v3tWD, and translate " There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat," &c., ver. 25 seems not so easy of explanation. The difficulty which may present itself on a comparison... | |
 | Thomas Tyler - Bible - 1874 - 176 pages
...perfect good, surely it was he. If, however, altering the text, we read bDS"'C7J3, and translate " There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat," &c., ver. 25 seems not so easy of explanation. The difficulty which may present itself on a comparison... | |
 | Dublin city, roy. coll. of sci - 1875 - 358 pages
...previous generation, men still believed in the pursuit of pleasure, and said with the Preacher, that " there is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour," though they then still essayed to dispel the increasing gloom... | |
 | Marcus Moritz Kalisch - Hebrew language - 1875 - 376 pages
...jfi which indicates the comparative,11 is but seldom omitted, as 73N*^ DHX3 SitD'pX (Eccl. ii. 24) there is nothing better for a man than that he should eat, for /5^'^?E.-THE NUMERALS. § XC. THE CARDINAL NUMBERS. 2. The singular of the noun stands exceptionally... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1875 - 532 pages
...use of such things as are lawfully permitted, non est ternperatus, as he will, sed super stitiosus. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat 1 Ob id genua observatiunculas vide- virum perpetua memorift mus homines misere affligi, et denlque... | |
 | Thomas Henry Leale - 1877 - 214 pages
...should be so. It is a question painfully asked of the Supremo Wisdom, not in anger but in grief. 24. There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink ] Not in the Epicurean sense, worshipping the triad of sensual life — oat, drink, and be merry ;... | |
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There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. 
