Ecclesiastes 3:9-15

Names of God Bible

God Gives Mortals a Sense of Eternity

⁹ What do working people gain from their hard labor? ¹⁰ I have seen mortals weighed down with a burden that Elohim has placed on them. ¹¹ It is beautiful how Elohim has done everything at the right time. He has put a sense of eternity in people’s minds. Yet, mortals still can’t grasp what Elohim is doing from the beginning to the end of time.

¹² I realize that there’s nothing better for them to do than to be cheerful and enjoy what is good in their lives. ¹³ It is a gift from Elohim to be able to eat and drink and experience the good that comes from every kind of hard work.

¹⁴ I realize that whatever Elohim does will last forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing can be taken away from it. Elohim does this so that people will fear him.

¹⁵ Whatever has happened in the past is present now. Whatever is going to happen in the future has already happened in the past. Elohim will call the past to account.^[a]