Ecclesiastes 3:12-20

¹²And I knew that nothing was better to a man, but to be glad, and to do good works in his life.

¹³For why each man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his travail; this is the gift of God.

¹⁴I have learned that all the works, that God made, last steadfastly unto without end; we may not add anything to those works, neither take away from those things, which God made, that he be dreaded.

¹⁵That thing that is made, dwelleth perfectly; those things that shall come, were before; and God restoreth that, that is gone.

¹⁶I saw under the sun unfaithfulness in the place of doom; and wickedness in the place of rightfulness.

¹⁷And I said in mine heart, The Lord shall deem a just or rightwise man, and an unfaithful man; and the time of each thing shall be then.

¹⁸I said in mine heart of the sons of men, that God should prove them, and show that they be like beasts.

¹⁹Therefore one is the perishing of man and of beasts, and even condition is of ever either; as a man dieth, so and those beasts die; all those breathe in like manner, and a man hath nothing more than a beast. All things be subject to vanity,

²⁰and all things go to one place; those be made of earth, and those turn again altogether into earth.