Ecclesiastes 3:12-20

¹²And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.

¹³For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.

¹⁴I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.

¹⁵That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.

¹⁶I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.

¹⁷And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.

¹⁸I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.

¹⁹Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.

²⁰And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.