<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.

So bathe yourself,<n id="1" /> rub on some perfumed oil,<n id="2" /> and get dressed up.<n id="3" /> Then go down<n id="4" /> to the threshing floor. But don&#8217;t let the man know you&#8217;re there until he finishes his meal.<n id="5" />

So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.

So all the people departed to eat and drink and to share their food<n id="1" /> with others<n id="2" /> and to enjoy tremendous joy,<n id="3" /> for they had gained insight in the matters that had been made known to them.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now his sons used to go<n id="1" /> and hold<n id="2" /> a feast in the house of each one in turn,<n id="3" /> and they would send and invite<n id="4" /> their three<n id="5" /> sisters to eat and to drink with them.

But the chief adviser said to them, &#8220;My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you.<n id="1" /> His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">I have seen personally what is the only beneficial and appropriate course of action for people:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to eat and drink,<n id="2" /> and find enjoyment in all their<n id="3" /> hard work<n id="4" /> on earth<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">during the few days of their life which God has given them,p> <p class="poetry">for this is their reward.<n id="6" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">So I recommend the enjoyment of life,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for there is nothing better on earth<n id="2" /> for a person to do<n id="3" /> except<n id="4" /> to eat, drink, and enjoy<n id="5" /> life.<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">So<n id="7" /> joy<n id="8" /> will accompany him in his toilp> <p class="poetry">during the days of his life which God gives him on earth.<n id="9" />p>

But the chief adviser said, &#8220;My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you.<n id="1" /> His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Uriah replied to David, &#8220;The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord&#8217;s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations<n id="1" /> with my wife? As surely as you are alive,<n id="2" /> I will not do this thing!&#8221;