Parallel Verses
- World English Bible - There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
- 新标点和合本 - 人莫强如吃喝，且在劳碌中享福，我看这也是出于 神的手。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 难道一个人有吃有喝，且在劳碌中享福，不是福气吗？我看这也是出于上帝的手。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 难道一个人有吃有喝，且在劳碌中享福，不是福气吗？我看这也是出于 神的手。
- 当代译本 - 对人而言，没有什么比吃喝并享受劳碌之乐更好，我看这也是出自上帝的手。
- 圣经新译本 - 人最好是吃喝，在自己的劳碌中自得其乐；我看这也是出于 神的手。
- 中文标准译本 - 对人而言，没有什么比吃喝并在劳苦中找到快乐更好的了！在我看，这也是出于神的手；
- 现代标点和合本 - 人莫强如吃喝，且在劳碌中享福，我看这也是出于神的手。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 人莫强如吃喝，且在劳碌中享福，我看这也是出于上帝的手。
- New International Version - A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,
- New International Reader's Version - A person can’t do anything better than eat, drink and be satisfied with their work. I’m finally seeing that those things also come from the hand of God.
- English Standard Version - There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,
- New Living Translation - So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that these pleasures are from the hand of God.
- The Message - The best you can do with your life is have a good time and get by the best you can. The way I see it, that’s it—divine fate. Whether we feast or fast, it’s up to God. God may give wisdom and knowledge and joy to his favorites, but sinners are assigned a life of hard labor, and end up turning their wages over to God’s favorites. Nothing but smoke—and spitting into the wind.
- Christian Standard Bible - There is nothing better for a person than to eat, drink, and enjoy his work. I have seen that even this is from God’s hand,
- New American Standard Bible - There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink, and show himself some good in his trouble. This too I have seen, that it is from the hand of God.
- New King James Version - Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
- Amplified Bible - There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and assure himself that there is good in his labor. Even this, I have seen, is from the hand of God.
- American Standard Version - There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
- King James Version - 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.
- New English Translation - There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in their work. I also perceived that this ability to find enjoyment comes from God.
- 新標點和合本 - 人莫強如吃喝，且在勞碌中享福，我看這也是出於神的手。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 難道一個人有吃有喝，且在勞碌中享福，不是福氣嗎？我看這也是出於上帝的手。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 難道一個人有吃有喝，且在勞碌中享福，不是福氣嗎？我看這也是出於 神的手。
- 當代譯本 - 對人而言，沒有什麼比吃喝並享受勞碌之樂更好，我看這也是出自上帝的手。
- 聖經新譯本 - 人最好是吃喝，在自己的勞碌中自得其樂；我看這也是出於 神的手。
- 呂振中譯本 - 人莫如喫喝，且在勞碌中讓自已經驗經驗享樂；我看這也是出於上帝的手。
- 中文標準譯本 - 對人而言，沒有什麼比吃喝並在勞苦中找到快樂更好的了！在我看，這也是出於神的手；
- 現代標點和合本 - 人莫強如吃喝，且在勞碌中享福，我看這也是出於神的手。
- 文理和合譯本 - 人式食式飲、享福於操作、無善於此、依我觀之、亦由上帝手也、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 以我觀之、上帝所賜、既勤勞而得之、則必以飲以食、安坐而享、樂莫大焉。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 若言人既勞碌、莫若以食以飲、安享其樂、我又見其權在乎天主、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Nada hay mejor para el hombre que comer y beber, y llegar a disfrutar de sus afanes. He visto que también esto proviene de Dios,
- 현대인의 성경 - 사람이 먹고 마시며 자기 일에 만족을 느끼는 것보다 더 좋은 것이 없으나 나는 이것도 하나님께서 주시는 것임을 깨달았다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Нет ничего лучше для человека, чем есть, пить и находить наслаждение в труде. Я понял, что и это дает рука Божья,
- Восточный перевод - Нет ничего лучше для человека, чем есть, пить и находить наслаждение в труде. Я понял, что и это даёт рука Всевышнего,
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Нет ничего лучше для человека, чем есть, пить и находить наслаждение в труде. Я понял, что и это даёт рука Аллаха,
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Нет ничего лучше для человека, чем есть, пить и находить наслаждение в труде. Я понял, что и это даёт рука Всевышнего,
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Il n’y a rien de bon pour l’homme, sinon manger, boire et se donner du bon temps au milieu de son dur labeur. Et j’ai constaté que cela même vient de la main de Dieu .
- リビングバイブル - そこで私は、食べたり飲んだりすることと、労働を楽しむこと以外に生きがいはない、と判断しました。しかも、このような楽しみさえ神の御手から来るとわかったのです。というのも、神の世話にならなければ、だれも食べたり楽しんだりすることはできないからです。神は、お心にかなった者に知恵、知識、喜びを与えます。ところが神は、罪人が金持ちになると、その財産を取り上げ、お心にかなった者に分け与えるのです。ここにも、風を追うようなむなしさの一例があります。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Para o homem não existe nada melhor do que comer, beber e encontrar prazer em seu trabalho. E vi que isso também vem da mão de Deus.
- Hoffnung für alle - Das Beste, was ein Mensch da tun kann, ist: essen und trinken und die Früchte seiner Arbeit genießen. Doch ich weiß: Das kann nur Gott ihm schenken!
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Vậy, tôi nghĩ không có gì tốt hơn là cứ ăn uống và hưởng thụ công khó mình. Rồi tôi nhận thấy những thú vui này đều đến từ Đức Chúa Trời.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - คนเราไม่อาจทำอะไรได้ดีไปกว่ากินดื่มและหาความอิ่มใจในงานของตน ข้าพเจ้าเห็นว่าสิ่งนี้ก็มาจากพระหัตถ์ของพระเจ้าด้วย
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ไม่มีอะไรดีสำหรับมนุษย์มากไปกว่าการดื่ม กิน และมีความสุขกับการงานของเขา และข้าพเจ้าเห็นว่า สิ่งนี้มาจากอานุภาพของพระเจ้าด้วย
Cross Reference
- Nehemiah 8:10 - Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
- Luke 12:19 - I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’
- Luke 12:20 - “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
- Deuteronomy 12:12 - You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
- Acts 14:17 - Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
- Malachi 2:2 - If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.
- Ecclesiastes 11:9 - Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10 - Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 6:2 - a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
- 1 Corinthians 15:32 - If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
- Deuteronomy 12:18 - but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
- Ecclesiastes 9:7 - Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
- Ecclesiastes 9:8 - Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.
- Ecclesiastes 9:9 - Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 3:12 - I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.
- Ecclesiastes 3:13 - Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
- 1 Timothy 6:17 - Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
- Ecclesiastes 5:18 - Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
- Ecclesiastes 5:19 - Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
- Ecclesiastes 8:15 - Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 3:22 - Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?