Specifically, he will judge them for their youthful enjoyment!”32 However, as Seow notes, For him [Qohelet], the enjoyment of life is both the lot of humanity … and a gift of God.… Human beings are supposed to enjoy life to the full because that is their divinely assigned portion, and God calls one into account for failure to enjoy. Or, as a passage in the Talmud has it: “Everyone must give an account before God of all good things one saw in life and did not enjoy.” … For Qohelet, enjoyment is not
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