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24 (A) The best thing we can do is to enjoy eating, drinking, and working.[a] I believe these are God's gifts to us, 25 and no one enjoys eating and living more than I do. 26 (B) If we please God, he will make us wise, understanding, and happy. But if we sin, God will make us struggle for a living, then he will give all we own to someone who pleases him. This makes no more sense than chasing the wind.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2.24 The best … working: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 2.26 chasing the wind: See the note at 1.14.

24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink(A) and find satisfaction in their own toil.(B) This too, I see, is from the hand of God,(C) 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?(D) 26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom,(E) knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth(F) to hand it over to the one who pleases God.(G) This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

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