| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 There is nothing better for a man, than ilr.it he should eat and drink, and that he should make his...This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? 26 For God giveth to a man that is... | |
| Thomas Brothers - Agricultural laborers - 1842 - 158 pages
...do better than refer to Ecclesiastes, or the Preacher, who tells us that " 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." And again, " a man hath no better thing under the sun, than, to eat, and to drink, and to be merry."... | |
| William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...labour, &c. Nothing botter for a man, than that he should 416 CHAP. XXXVII. 417 eat and drink, &c. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. — Eccles. ii. 1—11. 18, 19. 24. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice... | |
| 1843 - 1108 pages
...is nothing better for a A time for all. CHAP. Ill, IV. Man and beast. man, than that he should cat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy...This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 25 Fur who can eat ? or who else can hasten hereunto more than I ? 26 For God giveth to a man that... | |
| Simon Clough - Sermons, American - 1843 - 574 pages
...sentiments of Solomon, as expressed in the different parts of his writings : 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 labor. This also I saw, that it was from tlie hand of the Lord. I know that there is no good in them,... | |
| London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1844 - 712 pages
...therein, that they can interpret to gratify a sensual life. Chap. ii. 24 : " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and...he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour." And to the same purpose in chap. iii. 13, and v. 18, 19. But they should consider that Solomon only... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1844 - 662 pages
...for his own comfort ; yet this is the gift of God. Eccles. ii. 24 — 26, " 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 labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God." John i. 12, 13, " As many as received him,... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1844 - 692 pages
...for his own comfort ; yet this is the gift of God. Eccles. ii. 24 — 26, " 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 labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God." ' John i. 12, 13, " As many as received... | |
| George Bush - Bible - 1844 - 234 pages
...harotham, cause to set, ie would not permit them to enjoy. Thus Eccles. 2. 24, ' There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy (Heb. nK C;R1n 11E53 kerah elh naphsho, cause his soul to see) good in his labor.' Ps. 4. 6, ' Who... | |
| Theology - 1846 - 792 pages
...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 drink, 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... | |
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