And in the eighth day he delivered the peoples, which blessed the king, and went forth into their tabernacles, and they were glad and of joyful heart on all the goods that God had done to David, his servant, and to Israel, his people.
If a man liveth many years, and is glad in all these, he oweth to have mind of [the] dark time, and of many days; and when those shall come, [the] things passed shall be reproved of vanity.
Therefore this seemed good to me, that a man eat, and drink, and use gladness of his travail, in which he travailed under the sun, in the number of [the] days of his life, which God gave to him; and this is his part.
In a good day use thou goods, and before eschew thou an evil day; for God made so this day as that day, that a man find not just complainings against him.
Therefore I praised gladness, that no good was to a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and to be joyful; and that he should bear away with himself only this of his travail, in the days of his life, which God gave to him under the sun.
And the priest shall raise in the sight of the Lord the things taken again of him. And those things hallowed shall be the priest’s part, as the breast which is commanded to be separated, and the hip. After these things the Nazarite may drink wine.
There ye shall eat before your Lord God, ye, and your sons, and daughters, your menservants, and womenservants, and the deacons [or Levites], that dwell in your cities; for they have none other part and possession among you.
And ye and your houses shall eat there in the sight of your Lord God; and ye shall be glad in all things to which ye put the hand, in which your Lord God hath blessed you.
And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and was made more glad, and had gone to sleep beside the mound of sheaves, Ruth came, and hid herself; and when the cloth was uncovered from his feet, she casted down herself.