THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE UNDER THE SUN (2:24–26) Solomon discovers that part of the meaning of life is to live and enjoy it as a gift from God. True Enjoyment Is a Gift from God (2:24–25) A better translation of verse 25 is, “Who can eat, or who can have enjoyment without God?” We can try to find pleasure in life without God, but ultimately we can’t. Eight times in Ecclesiastes Solomon makes reference to eating and drinking and enjoying life. His point is that we need to understand life under the
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