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Live joyously with the wife whom you love all the days of your fleeting life that He has given you under the sun during all your fleeting days—for this is your portion in life and in your toil that you labor under the sun.

10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your all strength, for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, where you are going.

11 I further observed under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
    nor the battle to the mighty,
nor does bread come to the wise,
    or wealth to the discerning,
    or favor to the skillful;
for time and chance befall them all.

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