Parallel ECC 2:24

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BSB § Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.

OEB another illusion. There is, then, no satisfaction for a man beyond eating and drinking and enjoying himself as he works. This I saw to be from God’s

WEB 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.

NET 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.

LSV There is nothing good in a man who eats, and has drunk, and has shown his soul good in his labor. This also I have seen that it [is] from the hand of God.

FBV So what's the best thing to do? Eat, drink, and enjoy your work, recognizing as I did that these things are given to us by God,

T4T So I decided that the best thing that we can do is to enjoy what we eat and drink, and also enjoy our work. And I realized that those things are what God intends for us.

LEB There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and find delight in his toil. For I also realized that thisis from the hand of God!

BBE There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

MOF No MOF ECC book available

JPS There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy pleasure for his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

ASV 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.

DRA Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.

YLT There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it [is] from the hand of God.

DBY There is nothing good for man, but 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.

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

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

KJB ¶ 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.

BB Is it not better then for a man to eate and drynke, and his soule to be mery in his labour? yea I sawe that this also was a gift of God.
  (Is it not better then for a man to eat and drink, and his soule to be mery in his labour? yea I saw that this also was a gift of God.)

GNV There is no profit to man: but that he eate, and drinke, and delight his soule with the profit of his labour: I saw also this, that it was of the hand of God.
  (There is no profit to man: but that he eat, and drink, and delight his soule with the profit of his labour: I saw also this, that it was of the hand of God.)

CB Is it not better then for a ma to eate and drynke, and his soule to be mery in his laboure? Yee I sawe that this also was a gifte of God:
  (Is it not better then for a man to eat and drink, and his soule to be mery in his laboure? Yee I saw that this also was a gifte of God:)

WYC Whether it is not betere to ete and drynke, and to schewe to hise soule goodis of hise trauels? and this thing is of the hond of God.
  (Whether it is not better to eat and drink, and to show to his soule goods of his trauels? and this thing is of the hand of God.)

LUT Ist‘s nun nicht besser dem Menschen, essen und trinken und seine SeeLE guter Dinge sein in seiner Arbeit? Aber solches sah‘ ich auch, daß von Gottes Hand kommt.
  (Ist‘s now not besser to_him Menschen, eat and trinken and his SeeLE guter Dinge his in his Arbeit? But solches sah‘ I auch, that from God’s Hand kommt.)

CLV Nonne melius est comedere et bibere, et ostendere animæ suæ bona de laboribus suis? et hoc de manu Dei est.
  (Nonne melius it_is comedere and bibere, and ostendere animæ suæ good about laboribus to_his_own? and hoc about by_hand Dei est.)

BRN A man has nothing really good to eat, and to drink, and to shew his soul as good in his trouble. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

BrLXX Οὐκ ἔστιν ἀγαθὸν ἀνθρώπῳ, ὃ φάγεται καὶ ὃ πίεται καὶ ὃ δείξει τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτοῦ ἀγαθὸν ἐν μόχθῳ αὐτοῦ· καί γε τοῦτο εἶδον ἐγὼ ὅτι ἀπὸ χειρὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν·
  (Ouk estin agathon anthrōpōi, ho fagetai kai ho pietai kai ho deixei taʸ psuⱪaʸ autou agathon en moⱪthōi autou; kai ge touto eidon egō hoti apo ⱪeiros tou Theou estin;)