Ecclesiastes 9:4-8

⁴For whoever is yet united with all the living hath still hope; for a living dog fareth better than a dead lion.

⁵For the living know that they will die; but the dead know not the least; nor have they longer any reward; for their memory is forgotten.

⁶Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, are now already lost; and they will have never more a portion in all that is done under the sun.

⁷Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a merry heart thy wine, if God have already received thy works in favor.

⁸At all times let thy garments be white, and let oil not be wanting on thy head.