13. and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is a gift of Elohim.
14. I know that whatever Elohim does is forever. There is no adding to it, and there is no taking from it. Elohim does it, that men should fear before Him.
15. Whatever is has already been, and what shall be has been before. But Elohim seeks out what has been pursued.
16. Then again I saw under the sun: In the place of right-ruling, wrongness was there. And in the place of righteousness, wrongness was there.
17. I said in my heart, “Elohim judges the righteous and the wrong, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.”
18. I said in my heart, “Concerning the matter of the sons of men, Elohim selects them, so as to see that they themselves are beasts.”
19. For the event of the sons of men is also the event of beasts – one event befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Indeed, they all have one breath – man has no advantage over beasts. For all is futile.
20. All are going to one place – all came from the dust, and all return to dust.
21. Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the beast, which goes down to the earth?
22. So I saw that man could do no better but to rejoice in his own works, for that is his portion. For who would bring him to see what shall be after him?