10. Whatever your hands find to do, do with all your strength, because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.
11. Again I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, or the battle to the strong, or bread to the wise, or riches to the discerning, or favor to the skillful; rather, time and chance happen to all of them.
12. For man certainly does not know his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.
13. I have observed that this also is wisdom under the sun, and it is significant to me:
14. There was a small city with few men in it. A great king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege works against it.
15. Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.