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For the living know that they shall die: but the dead don't know anything, neither have they a reward anymore; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor wherein you labor under the sun.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do [it] with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you go.

For man also doesn't know his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of man snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don't leave your place; for gentleness allays great offenses.

The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.

You are happy, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes glad the life; and money answers all things.

Don't revile the king, no, not in your thought; and don't revile the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don't know what evil shall be on the earth.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

Yes, if man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

[This is] the end of the matter; all has been heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is [applicable to] all man.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For your love is better than wine.