Ecclesiastes 9:7-11

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.

⁹Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which God hath given thee under the sun, yea, all the days of thy vanity; for this is thy portion in this life, and in thy toil with which thou toilest under the sun.

¹⁰Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do with thy might, that do; for there is no work, nor experience, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the nether world, whither thou goest.—

¹¹I turned about, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty; and that also the wise have no bread, nor yet the men of understanding riches, nor yet men of knowledge favor; but time and fate will overtake them all.