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Ecclesiastes 9

9 Indeed, all of this I gave to my heart, to examine all of this: That the righteous and the wise and their work are in the hand of God. Either love or hate, humanity is not knowing; both are to their faces. 2 Everything is as for everyone, one happening:

For the righteous person and for the wicked person,

for the good person and for the pure person and for the unclean person,

and for the person who sacrifices and for the person who does not sacrifice.

As the good person, so the sinner;

the person who swears an oath is as the person who fears an oath.

3 This is a misfortune about everything that is done under the sun: That one happening belongs to everyone. And also, the heart of the sons of humanity is full of evil, and madness is in their heart during their lives—and after him, to the dead!

4 For whoever that is joined to all the living,

there is hope;

for for a living dog—

it is better than the dead lion,

5 for the living know that they will die,

but the dead—they are not knowing anything,

and there is no longer for them a reward—

even their memory is forgotten!

6 Even their love, even their hate,

even their jealousy—already it has perished.

And there is not for them a portion any longer in perpetuity

among all that is done under the sun.

7 Go! Eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a good heart, because the God has already accepted your deeds. 8 At every time, let your clothes be white, and do not let oil be lacking on your head. 9 See life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vaporous life, which he has given to you under the sun—all the days of your vapor. For it is your portion in life and in your toil that you are a toiler under the sun. 10 Everything that your hand finds to do, do it with your strength, because there is no deed or scheme of things or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, where you are going to there.
11 I again saw under the sun:

That not to the swift is the race,

and not to the mighty is the war,

and even not to wise people is bread,

and even not to discerning people is wealth,

and even not to understanding people is favor,

for a time and the occurrence will happen to all of them.

12 For humanity does not even know his time.

Like the fish that are caught in a troublesome net,

and like the birds that are caught in the snare—

like them, the sons of humanity are snared at a time of misfortune

when it falls upon them suddenly.

13 Also, this I saw: Wisdom under the sun, and great it was to me. 14 There was a small city, and a few men were in it. And against it came a great king, and he surrounded it, and he built against it great siegeworks. 15 And he found in it a poor, wise man, and he himself delivered the city with his wisdom. But a person did not remember that poor man. 16 And I said, I, “Better is wisdom than might, but the wisdom of the poor person is despised, and his words—they are not heard.”

17 The words of wise people in quietness are heeded,

more than the cry of a ruler among the fools.

18 Better is wisdom than weapons of battle,

but one sinner will destroy much good.

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