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Injustices in the world
16 Furthermore, I saw that on this earth [MTY],
even in the courts where we expect judges to make right decisions about what people had done,
they did many wicked [DOU] things.
17 So I said to myself [SYN], “God will judge both righteous people and wicked people;
there is a time for him to do that,
because there is a time for him to do everything.”
18 And regarding humans, I also said to myself, “God is testing us, to show us that in one way people are no different than animals, 19 because what happens to people happens to animals. Animals die, and people die. We all must breathe to remain alive. With regard to that, people have no advantage over animals, so I have a difficult time understanding that. 20 People and animals all die and are buried. We are all made of soil, and when we die, our corpses become soil again. 21 No one knows [RHQ] for sure that when we die, our souls/spirits go up to heaven and the souls/spirits of animals go down to the place where the dead are.”
22 So I concluded that the best thing for us people to do is to be happy about the work that we do, because that is what God has given to us. I say that because no one of us [RHQ] knows what happens to us after we die.