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Always wear white clothes to show you are happy. Anoint your head with olive oil. You love your wife. So enjoy life with her. Do it all the days of this meaningless life God has given you on earth. That’s what he made you for. That’s what you get for all your hard work on earth. 10 No matter what you do, work at it with all your might. Remember, you are going to the place of the dead. And there isn’t any work or planning or knowledge or wisdom there.

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Always be clothed in white,(A) and always anoint your head with oil. Enjoy life with your wife,(B) 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(C) in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. 10 Whatever(D) your hand finds to do, do it with all your might,(E) for in the realm of the dead,(F) where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.(G)

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