Ecclesiastes 3:13-20

¹³And I also know that everyone should eat and drink, and enjoy the work that they do. Those are things that God gives to us.

¹⁴I also know that what God does endures forever. No one can add to what God does, and no one can take away from the things that God does. God does those things in order that people would revere him.

¹⁵Things that exist now have already existed previously, and things that will happen in the future have already happened previously; God causes the same things to happen many times.

¹⁶Furthermore, I saw that on this earth MTY, even in the courts where we expect judges to make right decisions about what people had done, they did many wicked DOU things.

¹⁷So I said to myself SYN, “God will judge both righteous people and wicked people; there is a time for him to do that, because there is a time for him to do everything.”

¹⁸And regarding humans, I also said to myself, “God is testing us, to show us that in one way people are no different than animals,

¹⁹because what happens to people happens to animals. Animals die, and people die. We all must breathe to remain alive. With regard to that, people have no advantage over animals, so I have a difficult time understanding that.

²⁰People and animals all die and are buried. We are all made of soil, and when we die, our corpses become soil again.