Eat, Drink And Be Merry

Ecclesiastes 8
15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

I know the accepted meaning of this passage, accepted by Christians (tranquil enjoyment of God's temporal gifts that you earned). But it just does not read right to me. I see two interpretations. Either it's Solomon, sitting at the head of a huge, well-supplied banquet table, with hundreds of his courtiers. Or I see a bunch of young adults, revelling at a bar, after a long, hard day at work.

More From Ecclesiastes 8
17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.