13. Moreover, that all can eat and drink and enjoy the good of all their toil—this is a gift of God.
14. I recognized that whatever God does will endure forever; there is no adding to it, or taking from it. Thus has God done that he may be revered.
15. What now is has already been; what is to be, already is: God retrieves what has gone by.
16. And still under the sun in the judgment place I saw wickedness, and wickedness also in the seat of justice.
17. I said in my heart, both the just and the wicked God will judge, since a time is set for every affair and for every work.