Ecclesiastes 9:3-9

³This is just so wrong—that everyone here on earth should suffer the same fate! On top of that, people's minds are filled with evil. They spend their lives thinking about stupid things, and then they die.

⁴But the living still have hope—a live dog is better than a dead lion!

⁵The living are conscious of the fact that they're going to die, but the dead have no consciousness of anything. They don't receive any further benefit; they're forgotten.

⁶Their love, hate, and envy—it's all gone. They have no further part in anything that happens here on earth.

⁷So go ahead and eat your food, and enjoy it. Drink your wine with a happy heart. That's what God intends that you should do.

⁸Always wear smart clothes and look good.

⁹Enjoy life with the wife that you love—the one God gave you—during all the days of this brief life, all these passing days whose meaning is so hard to understand as you work here on earth.