Ecclesiastes 8:15-17

Legacy Standard Bible

¹⁵ So I laud gladness, for there is nothing good for ^(A)a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to ^[a]be merry, and this will join with him in his labor throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

¹⁶ When I ^(B)gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the endeavor which has been done on the earth (even though one ^(C)never sees sleep with his eyes day or night), ¹⁷ and I saw every work of God, I concluded that ^(D)man cannot find out the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not find it out; and ^(E)though the wise man should say, “I know,” he cannot find it out.