¹⁸ Here is what I have seen to be ^(A)good and ^[a]fitting: to eat, to drink and ^[b]enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few ^[c]years of his life which God has given him; for this is his ^[d](B)reward.

¹⁵ So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for ^(A)a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his ^[a]toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.