9. What do we gain by all our hard work?
10. I have seen what difficult things God demands of us.
11. God makes everything happen at the right time. Yet none of us can ever fully understand all he has done, and he puts questions in our minds about the past and the future.
12. I know the best thing we can do is always to enjoy life,
13. because God's gift to us is the happiness we get from our food and drink and from the work we do.
14. Everything God has done will last for ever; nothing he does can ever be changed. God has done all this, so that we will worship him.
15. Everything that happenshas happened before,and all that will behas already been—God does everythingover and over again.
16. Everywhere on earth I saw violence and injustice instead of fairness and justice.