4. Whoever is joined to all the living has hope. After all, even a live dog is better than a dead lion!
5. For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have a reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.
6. What they loved and hated, as well as what they desired, has already perished. They no longer have any share in what is done under the sun.
7. Go—eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.
8. Always be clothed in white garments, and never let your head lack oil!
9. Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which he gives you under the sun, because this is your lot in life and in the toil with which you toil under the sun.
10. Whatever your hand finds to do—do it with all your might; for in Sheol—where you are going—no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything.
11. I looked again and saw under the sun that the race does not belong to the swift, the battle does not belong to the mighty, food does not belong to the wise, wealth does not belong to the intelligent, and success does not belong to the skillful, for time and chance befalls all of them.