Go then, (A)eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works. Let your (B)clothes be white all the time, and let not (C)oil be lacking on your head. Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your [a](D)fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun[b]; for this is your (E)reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:9 Lit life of vanity
  2. Ecclesiastes 9:9 Heb adds all the days of your vanity

Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine(A) with a joyful heart,(B) for God has already approved what you do. Always be clothed in white,(C) and always anoint your head with oil. Enjoy life with your wife,(D) whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot(E) in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

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