Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;