1All this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate one does not know. Everything that confronts them
2 since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath.
3 because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
10Isa 38.10; Rom 12.11; Col 3.23Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
11 Deut 8.17, 18; 1 Sam 6.9; Am 2.14, 15 Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the skillful, but time and chance happen to them all.
12Prov 29.6; Eccl 8.7; Isa 24.18; Lk 21.34, 35For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.
Wisdom Superior to Folly13I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.
14There was a little city with few people in it. A great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.
15Eccl 2.16; 4.13; 8.10Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
16Prov 21.22; Eccl 7.19So I said, “Wisdom is better than might; yet the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heeded.”
17 Eccl 7.5; 10.12 The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded
than the shouting of a ruler among fools.
18 v 16 ; Josh 7.1, 11, 12Wisdom is better than weapons of war,
but one bungler destroys much good.
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