 | Pope Gregory I - Bible - 1844 - 646 pages
...the reader to a truth that is to be understood. Thus, how is it that Solomon says, There tsEco. 3, nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink; ' and adds not long after, It is better to go to the house qf'Ece. 1, mourning than to the house of feasting?... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1846 - 810 pages
...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...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 tears... | |
 | Theology - 1846 - 792 pages
...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...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 tears... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Bible - 1846 - 1102 pages
...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 pages
...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...time/ until The LORD Come, Who both will Bring to L labour ; this also I saw, that it was from the Hand of GOD : but in conclusion he adds, This also is... | |
 | Christian women - 2000 - 342 pages
...command. One of the first impressions she received was in harmony with the satire of the wise man: "There is nothing better for a man than that he should...drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good!" She lived in a splendid mansion, around which the park, with its green covering, extended several miles.... | |
 | Jane H. M. Taylor - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 258 pages
...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...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour'). But, of course, Villon is misappropriating, at least in fifteenthcentury terms: the best... | |
 | Carl von Linné - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 516 pages
...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...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. Ecclesiastes 3: 13: That every man should... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - Fiction - 2001 - 308 pages
...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...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. For who can eat, or who else can hasten... | |
 | Dominic Rudman - Religion - 2001 - 234 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
