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.
12. For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also humans are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.