13 However, it will not go well with the wicked,(A) and they will not lengthen their days like a shadow,(B) for they are not reverent before God.

14 There is a futility that is done on the earth: there are righteous people who get what the actions of the wicked deserve,(C) and there are wicked people who get what the actions of the righteous deserve.(D) I say that this too is futile. 15 So I commended enjoyment because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat, drink, and enjoy himself,(E) for this will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.

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