9 What do people gain from all the work they do?

10 I’ve seen the task that God has given people to keep them occupied.

11 God makes everything happen at the appropriate time.

Also, he puts the awareness of eternity into the human mind,

yet humanity can’t grasp what God has done from the beginning to the end.

12 I know that there’s nothing better for them

than being cheerful and doing good during their lives

13 and everyone should eat and drink and see good in everything they do—

that’s a gift from God.

14 I know that everything God does will be enduring.

There’s nothing that needs to be added to it, or taken away,

and God has done it like that so that people will respect and want to obey him.

15 Whatever there is, it already was,

and whatever is to be, it already is,

and God will watch whatever’s being worked on.