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Go, eat your food joyfully and drink your wine happily because God has already accepted what you do. Let your garments always be white; don’t run short of oil for your head. Enjoy life with your dearly loved spouse all the days of your pointless life that God[a] gives you under the sun—all the days of your pointless life![b]—because that’s your part to play[c] in this life and in your hard work under the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:9 Or he or that are given you
  2. Ecclesiastes 9:9 This phrase is missing in some LXX sources, Syr, and Tg.
  3. Ecclesiastes 9:9 Or portion

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