8. We cannot control the wind or determine the day of our death. There is no escape in time of war, and no one can hide behind evil.
9. I noticed all this and thought seriously about what goes on in the world. Why does one person have the power to hurt another?
10. I saw the wicked buried with honour, but God's people had to leave the holy city and were forgotten. None of this makes sense.
11. When we see criminals commit crime after crime without being punished, it makes us want to start a life of crime.
12. They commit hundreds of crimes and live to a ripe old age, in spite of the saying:Everyone who lives rightand respects Godwill prosper,
13. but no one who sinsand rejects Godwill prosper or live very long.
14. There is something else that doesn't make sense to me. Good citizens are treated as criminals, while criminals are honoured as though they were good citizens.
15. So I think we should get as much out of life as we possibly can. There is nothing better than to enjoy our food and drink and to have a good time. Then we can make it through this troublesome life that God has given us here on earth.
16. Day and night I went without sleep, trying to understand what goes on in this world.