this woman to be the woman of Gen. 2:23; Prov. 5:15–19; 18:22 and Prov. 31, not the degenerate Qoheleth described in 7:26. We notice two more nuances to Qoheleth’s instruction about a man’s relationship with his wife. It is clearly one’s life that is to be enjoyed with the spouse, not just the woman herself as an object of his enjoyment. She is to be a partner in life’s happiness, one without whom life cannot be full. Furthermore, that one woman (‘a woman’) is to be a partner and helper all of one’s