The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and
after that they go to the dead.
ECC 9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for
a living dog is better than a dead lion.
ECC 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not
any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them
is forgotten.
ECC 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now
perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing
that is done under the sun.
ECC 9:7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a
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