Ecclesiastes 9:4-10

⁴For anyone who is united to all the living, there is hope, just as a living dog is better than a dead lion.

⁵For living people know they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have any reward because their memory is forgotten.

⁶Their love, hatred, and envy have vanished long ago. They will never have a place again in anything done under the sun.

⁷Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, for God approves of celebrating good works.

⁸Let your clothes be always white and your head anointed with oil.

⁹Live happily with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of uselessness, the days that God has given you under the sun during your days of uselessness. That is your reward in life for your work under the sun.

¹⁰Whatever your hand finds to do, work at it with your strength, because there is no work or explanation or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, where you are going.