Ecclesiastes 5:17
“"So what I have seen to be good is that it is suitable to eat and drink and enjoy pleasure with all one's labour that he toils beneath the sun during the brief span of his life that God has given him, for that is his lot. Furthermore, every man to whom God has given riches and possessions and has given him the power t…”
Source: Septuagint
17Behold, I have seen good, that it is a fine thing for a man To eat and to drink, And to see good In all his labor in Which he may labor under the sun, All the number of the days of his life Which God has given to him: For it is his portion.
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15And this is also an evil infirmity: For as he came, so also shall he return: And what is his gain, for which he vainly labors?
16Yea, all his days are in darkness, and in mourning, And much sorrow, and infirmity, and wrath.
— Ecclesiastes 5:17 —
18Yea, and as for every man to whom God has given Wealth and possessions, and has given him Power to eat thereof, and to receive his portion, And to rejoice in his labor; This is the gift of God.
19For he shall not much remember the days of his life; For God troubles him in the mirth of his heart.