Ecclesiastes 3:9-14

⁹What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

¹⁰I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.

¹¹He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

¹²I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

¹³And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

¹⁴I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.