13 Moreover, this is the gift of God: that all people should eat, drink, and enjoy the results of their hard work.
14 I know that whatever God does will last forever; it’s impossible to add to it or take away from it. God has done this so that people are reverent before him.
15 Whatever happens has already happened, and whatever will happen has already happened before. And God looks after what is driven away.
16 I saw something else under the sun: in the place of justice, there was wickedness; and in the place of what was right, there was wickedness again!
17 I thought to myself, God will judge both righteous and wicked people, because there’s a time for every matter and every deed.
18 I also thought, Where human beings are concerned, God tests them to show them that they are but animals
19 because human beings and animals share the same fate. One dies just like the other—both have the same life-breath. Humans are no better off than animals because everything is pointless.