7. There is a time to tear cloth and a time to sew it. There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.
8. There is a time to love and a time to hate. There is a time for war and a time for peace.
9. Do people really gain anything from their hard work?
10. I saw all the hard work God gave us to do.
11. God gave us the ability to think about his world, but we can never completely understand everything he does. And yet, he does everything at just the right time.
12. I learned that the best thing for people to do is to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live.
13. God wants everyone to eat, drink, and enjoy their work. These are gifts from God.
14. I learned that anything God does will continue forever. People cannot add anything to the work of God, and they cannot take anything away from it. God did this so that people would respect him.
15. What happened in the past has happened, and what will happen in the future will happen. But God wants to help those who have been treated badly.
16. I also saw these things in this life: I saw that the courts should be filled with goodness and fairness, but there is evil there now.
17. So I said to myself, “God has planned a time for everything, and he has planned a time to judge everything people do. He will judge good people and bad people.”
18. I thought about what people do to each other. And I said to myself, “God wants people to see that they are like animals.