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Enjoying life and work

Ecc 3:9–15

3:9 Enjoying life and work

9 What do people gain from all the work they do?

10 I’ve seen the task that God has given people to keep them occupied.

11 God makes everything happen at the appropriate time.

Also, he puts the awareness of eternity into the human mind,

yet humanity can’t grasp what God has done from the beginning to the end.

12 I know that there’s nothing better for them

than being cheerful and doing good during their lives

13 and everyone should eat and drink and see good in everything they do—

that’s a gift from God.

14 I know that everything God does will be enduring.

There’s nothing that needs to be added to it, or taken away,

and God has done it like that so that people will respect and want to obey him.

15 Whatever there is, it already was,

and whatever is to be, it already is,

and God will watch whatever’s being worked on.

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9 What is_the _advantage _of the_one _who_works in_that_which he was_toiling.

10 I _have _seen DOM the_business which god he _has _given to_the _children _of the_humankind to_be _busy in/on/over_him/it.

11 DOM (the)_everything he _has _made beautiful in_time _of_its also DOM (the)_perpetuity he _has _put in_heart _of_their from_not _of which not the_humankind he _will _find DOM the_work which the_ʼElohīm he _has _done from_beginning and_unto end.

12 I _know if/because _that there_is_not good for_them if/because (if) to_rejoice and_to_do good in_life _of_his.

13 And_also every _of the_humankind who_he _will _eat and_he _will _drink and_he _will _see good in_all toil _of_his is_a _gift _of god it.

14 I _know if/because _that all that the_ʼElohīm he _does it it _will _be forever_perpetuity on/upon/above_him/it there_is_not to_add and_from_it there_is_not to_take _away and_(the)_god he _has _acted that_people _will _fear from_before_face _of_him.

15 Whatever (that)_it_is has _been_already it and_which to_be already it _has _been and_(the)_god he _will _seek DOM that _which _was_pursued.