Ecclesiastes 9:10-14

¹⁰Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might! For there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the under-world, whither thou goest.

¹¹I turned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor to men of knowledge; but time and chance happen to them all.

¹²For man knoweth not his time. As fishes that are taken in a destructive net, and as birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in a time of distress, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

¹³This also have I seen; even wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

¹⁴There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.