I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

A Time for Everything

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.

But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.

Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.

In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.

For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him.

Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.

As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.