3. This is the sad thing about all that happens under the sun: the same fate awaits everyone. Moreover, the human heart is full of evil; people’s minds are full of madness while they are alive, and afterward they die.
4. Whoever is among the living can be certain about this. A living dog is definitely better off than a dead lion,
5. because the living know that they will die. But the dead know nothing at all. There is no more reward for them; even the memory of them is lost.
6. Their love and their hate, as well as their zeal, are already long gone. They will never again have a stake in all that happens under the sun.
7. Go, eat your food joyfully and drink your wine happily because God has already accepted what you do.