18 Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.(A)

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18 May your fountain(A) be blessed,
    and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.(B)

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Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting[a] life,(A) which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle(B) under the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:9 Or futile

Enjoy life with your wife,(A) whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot(B) in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

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10 I belong to my love,
and his desire(A) is for me.(B)

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10 I belong to my beloved,
    and his desire(A) is for me.(B)

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