14
Do not deprive yourself of a happy day; let not your share of desired good pass by you.
15
Will you not leave the fruit of your labors to another, and what you acquired by toil to be divided by lot?
16
Give, and take, and beguile yourself, because in Hades one cannot look for luxury.
17
All living beings become old like a garment, for the decree from of old is, "You must surely die!"
18
Like flourishing leaves on a spreading tree which sheds some and puts forth others, so are the generations of flesh and blood: one dies and another is born.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.