11 God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.
12 I recognized that there is nothing better than to rejoice and to do well during life.
13 Moreover, that all can eat and drink and enjoy the good of all their toil—this is a gift of God.
14 I recognized that whatever God does will endure forever; there is no adding to it, or taking from it. Thus has God done that he may be revered.
15 What now is has already been; what is to be, already is: God retrieves what has gone by.
16 And still under the sun in the judgment place I saw wickedness, and wickedness also in the seat of justice.
17 I said in my heart, both the just and the wicked God will judge, since a time is set for every affair and for every work.