Ecclesiastes 3:9-15

9What do people really get for all their hard work?

10I have seen the burden God has placed on us all.

11Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.

12So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can.

13And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.

14And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God’s purpose is that people should fear him.

15What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.