²⁴ There is ^(A)nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and ^[a]tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is ^(B)from the hand of God.

¹⁵ So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for ^(A)a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his ^[a]toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.