1. For all this I took to heart, even to search out all this: that the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of Elohim. No man knows whether love or hatred awaits him.
2. It is the same for all: One event to the righteous and to the wrong; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; and to the one slaughtering and to the one not slaughtering. As is the good one, so is the sinner; the one swearing as the one fearing an oath.
3. This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one event to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and then – to the dead!
4. But for him who is joined to all the living there is trust, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5. For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know naught, nor do they have any more reward, for their remembrance is forgotten.
6. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy have now perished; and they no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.