Ecc 2:24, 3:12, 22, 5:17, 8:15 | Geneva | STEP | [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should {p} make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God. (p) When man has all laboured, he can get no more than food and refreshing, yet he confesses also that this comes from God's blessing, as in .

Ecclesiastes 2:24

[There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should {p} make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.

(p) When man has all laboured, he can get no more than food and refreshing, yet he confesses also that this comes from God's blessing, as in Ec 3:13.

Ecclesiastes 3:12

Ecclesiastes 3:22

Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should {l} rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

(l) By the often repetition of this sentence as in Ec 2:24,3:12,22,5:17,8:15 he declares that man by reason can comprehend nothing better in this life than to use the gifts of God soberly and comfortably: for to know further, is a special gift of God revealed by his Spirit.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days also he eateth in {n} darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

(n) In affliction and grief of mind.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than {n} to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

(n)

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