 | James Limburg - Religion - 2006 - 156 pages
...means to an end, this is an infringement of the original right of bodily life. "There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and...This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God" (Eccl. 2:24). "I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his... | |
 | Bernard Grant - 2006 - 100 pages
...earning it, and now it is difficult to let it go easily. Ecclesiastes 2:24 says, "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. " Ecclesiastes 3:13 says, "And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all... | |
 | Bob Crowe - Religion - 2007 - 270 pages
...pleasure; and, behold, this also is vanity." He concludes in verse 24 that "there is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and...This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God." Epicurus, some 700 years after Solomon, advised that we should simply seek pleasure, in moderation,... | |
 | Harold F. Jacob - Arabs - 2007 - 342 pages
...drinks to excess. He does nothing of the kind. To everything there is a season. There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that...good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from God* CHAPTER ELEVEN MY MISSION TO THE COURT OF THE IMAM OF SANA I ARRIVED in Hodeida on 18th August,... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 188 pages
...strength, and not for drunkenness!" (10: 17) and when the same book advises "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" (2: 24), the suggestion is that the immoderate consumption of food and drink should be avoided, not... | |
 | Patty Wachold - 2007 - 330 pages
...he that follows after vain persons shall have poverty enough, Proverbs .2808 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. Ecclesiastes,..2..:24 What profit has he... | |
 | Alicia Ostriker - Religion - 2007 - 183 pages
...from the meaninglessness and brevity of life is a resolution to enjoy it. "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 ... is from the hand of God" (2.24). No sooner does the Witness question "What profit does... | |
 | James E. Smith - Religion - 2007 - 878 pages
...Koheleth also asserts that man cannot find "good" or pleasure in his labor without the blessing of God. "This also I saw that it was from the hand of God." This is the point: the power of enjoyment depends on the will of God (2:24). B. The Proof (2:25-26).... | |
 | William J. Middleton - African American cooking - 2008 - 251 pages
...SOUTHERN SDUL FDDD Mom's Favorite Family Recipes There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of the LORD. Ecclesiates 2:24 WILLIAM J. MIDDLETDN... | |
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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. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 
