I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore consider and behold goodness; this also is vanity.

For there is no memory of the wise more than of the fool forever, since that which is now shall all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise die above the fool!

That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires that which is past.

And I commended the dead who already have died, more than the living who are living now.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; nor do they any longer have a part forever in all that is done under the sun.

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now is pleased with your works.

Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them.