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Ecclesiastes 9:9Eccl.9.9

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

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Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Jouis de la vie avec la femme que tu aimes, pendant tous les jours de ta vie de vanité, que Dieu t'a donnés sous le soleil, pendant tous les jours de ta vanité; car c'est ta part dans la vie, au milieu de ton travail que tu fais sous le soleil.

KJV

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 106 (Migne)

    cunctis diebus vitae instabilitatis tuae, qui dati sunt tibi sub sole, omni tempore vanitatis tuae (Eccles. IX, 9) . Petrus vero Apostolus ait: Viri similiter cohabitantes secundum scientiam, quasi infirmiori vasi muliebri impertientes honorem; tanquam cohaeredibus gratiae vestra…

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