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I also know it will not go well for evil people, because they do not honor God. Like a shadow, they will not last.

So I decided it was more important to enjoy life. The best that people can do here on earth is to eat, drink, and enjoy life, because these joys will help them do the hard work God gives them here on earth.

So go eat your food and enjoy it; drink your wine and be happy, because that is what God wants you to do.

Enjoy life with the wife you love. Enjoy all the useless days of this useless life God has given you here on earth, because it is all you have. So enjoy the work you do here on earth.

Whatever work you do, do your best, because you are going to the grave, where there is no working, no planning, no knowledge, and no wisdom.

Don't leave your job just because your boss is angry with you. Remaining calm solves great problems.

Invest what you have, because after a while you will get a return.

Invest what you have in several different businesses, because you don't know what disasters might happen.

Plant early in the morning, and work until evening, because you don't know if this or that will succeed. They might both do well.

Don't worry, and forget the troubles of your body, because youth and childhood are useless.

Now, everything has been heard, so I give my final advice: Honor God and obey his commands, because this is all people must do.

Kiss me with the kisses of your mouth, because your love is better than wine.

Strengthen me with raisins, and refresh me with apples, because I am weak with love.

Turn your eyes from me, because they excite me too much. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.

Heaven and earth, listen, because the Lord is speaking: "I raised my children and helped them grow up, but they have turned against me.

When you raise your arms to me in prayer, I will refuse to look at you. Even if you say many prayers, I will not listen to you, because your hands are full of blood.

"You will be ashamed, because you have worshiped gods under the oak trees. You will be disgraced, because you have worshiped idols in your gardens.

Lord , you have left your people, the family of Jacob, because they have become filled with wrong ideas from people in the East. They try to tell the future like the Philistines, and they have completely accepted those foreign ideas.

You should stop trusting in people to save you, because people are only human; they aren't able to help you.

But that brother will stand up and say, "I cannot help you, because I do not have food or clothes in my house. You will not make me your leader."