Enjoy the Given Portion

Few Words and Wealth Without Rest · Ecclesiastes 5

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17Here is what I myself have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink and to enjoy good in all the labor at which he labors under the sun for as many days of life as God has given him, for this is his portion.

18Also, every man to whom God has given wealth and possessions, and has enabled him to eat from them, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

19For he will not dwell much on the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.

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