SIL Translator’s Notes on Ecclesiastes 2:24

2:24a Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work.

So I decided that there was nothing better for a man to do than to enjoy his food and drink and his job. (TLB)
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To eat, drink, and enjoy your work is the best approach to life.
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The best that people can do is just to eat food, drink drinks, and enjoy their hard work.
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We should eat and we should drink. And we should enjoy our work. There is nothing better that we can do than those things. (EASY2015)

2:24b I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.

I understood, that this too comes from God.
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I realized that God gives people these things.

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