...pessimistic melancholy turns into something very different as he goes on and begins to say things like 'Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart.' Wisdom for him is a force moving against the normal flow of time, going from the 'vanity'...

...labouring man is sweet . . . a man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink and be merry . . . Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. What is night? An hour when he who is the slave of time...

...approbation. Oh, let me see and feel that Christ accepteth my person and my services. As, Eccles. 9:7: "Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God now accepteth thy works." 2nd Ans. More particularly, we may see what is intended...

...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. KOHELETH Louis UNTERMEYER I waited and worked To win...

...flies; And on thy watchful providence My cheerful hope relies. 22 -Divine Acceptance a Source of Joy Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy work. Eccles. ix. j. Whilst I see thy love to me, Every object...

...righteous in afterlife. The Ecclesiastes may in fact refer to the general ancient belief when it says: Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works... Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might;...

..."Hmm. Hmm. Well, he's right about this," said Antony. "About what?" "Listen to this. The poet says, ' '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...

...where vanity reigns, we can know that the grace of God has burst through to us by one indication only: "Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works" (Ecc. 9:7)- A man who stands in his justification 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 accepted! thy works. "Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack...

...abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun (Eccles. 8:16). Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart: for God now accepteth thy works (Eccles. 9:7). The "eat, drink, and be merry" exhortation...