4. For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5. For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
6. Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.
7. Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
8. Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil.
9. Enjoy life 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 life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.
10. Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.
11. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.