Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.

A loving doe, a graceful fawn-- let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever.

A man who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

A house and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a sensible wife is from the LORD.

Didn't the one [God] make [us] with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek? A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.

For who knows what is good for man in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell man what will happen after him under the sun?

You, indeed, have made my days short in length, and my life span as nothing in Your sight. Yes, every mortal man is only a vapor. Selah

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

All that my eyes desired, I did not deny them. I did not refuse myself any pleasure, for I took pleasure in all my struggles. This was my reward for all my struggles.

There is nothing better for man than to eat, drink, and to enjoyhis work. I have seen that even this is from God's hand.

It is also the gift of God whenever anyone eats, drinks, and enjoys all his efforts.

I have seen that there is nothing better than for a person to enjoy his activities, because that is his reward. For who can enable him to see what will happen after he dies?

Here is what I have seen to be good: it is appropriate to eat, drink, and experience good in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of his life God has given him, because that is his reward.