Ecclesiastes 9:1-7

¹I treated all these things in mine heart, to understand diligently. Just or rightwise men, and wise men there be, and their works be in the hand of God; and nevertheless a man knoweth not, whether he is worthy of love or of hate.

²But all things be kept uncertain into the time to coming or to come; for all things befall evenly to a just or rightwise man and to a wicked man, to a good man and to an evil man, to a clean man and to an unclean man, to a man offering offerings and sacrifices, and to a man despising sacrifices; as a good man, so and a sinner; as a forsworn man, so and he that greatly sweareth truth.

³This thing is the worst among all things, that be done under the sun, that the same thing befall to all men; wherefore and the hearts of the sons of men be filled with malice and with despising in their life; and after these things, they shall be led down into hells or to hell.

⁴No man there is, that liveth ever, and that hath trust of this thing; better is a quick dog than a dead lion.

⁵For they that live know that they shall die; but dead men know nothing more, neither have meed further; for their mind is given to forgetting.

⁶Also their love, and hatred, and envy, perished altogether; and they have no part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun.

⁷Therefore go thou, just man, and eat thy bread in gladness, and drink thy wine with joy; for thy works please God.