⁷ Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine^(A) with a joyful heart,^(B) for God has already approved what you do. ⁸ Always be clothed in white,^(C) and always anoint your head with oil. ⁹ Enjoy life with your wife,^(D) whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot^(E) in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. ¹⁰ Whatever^(F) your hand finds to do, do it with all your might,^(G) for in the realm of the dead,^(H) where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.^(I)