Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting[a] life,(A) which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle(B) under the sun.

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  1. 9:9 Or futile

Enjoy life with your wife,(A) 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(B) in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

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Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

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14 And you ask, “Why?” Because even though the Lord has been a witness(A) between you and the wife of your youth,(B) you have acted treacherously against her. She was your marriage partner(C) and your wife by covenant.(D)

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14 You ask,(A) “Why?” It is because the Lord is the witness(B) between you and the wife of your youth.(C) You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.(D)

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14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

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