15. What happens now has happened in the past,and what will happen in the future has happened before.God makes the same things happen again and again.
16. I also saw this here on earth:Where there should have been justice, there was evil;where there should have been right, there was wrong.
17. I said to myself,God has planned a time for every thing and every action,so he will judge both good people and bad.
18. I decided that God leaves it the way it is to test people and to show them they are just like animals.
19. The same thing happens to animals and to people; they both have the same breath, so they both die. People are no better off than the animals, because everything is useless.
20. Both end up the same way; both came from dust and both will go back to dust.
21. Who can be sure that the human spirit goes up to God and that the spirit of an animal goes down into the ground?
22. So I saw that the best thing people can do is to enjoy their work, because that is all they have. No one can help another person see what will happen in the future.