Do people really gain anything [profit] from their work [toil]? I saw the hard work [task] God has given people to do to keep them occupied. God has given them a desire to know the future and placed eternity and an awareness of time in their hearts. He does everything just right, appropriate, and beautiful in its time, but people can never completely understand what he is doing or discover and find the work that God does from beginning to end [humans cannot discern the “right time”]. So I realize that the best thing for them is to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live. God wants all people to eat and drink and be happy in their toil, which are gifts from God [the little pleasures are distractions from the meaningless world]. I
know that everything God does will continue forever. People cannot add
anything to what God has done, and they cannot take anything away from
it. God does it this way to make people respect [or be afraid of] him.
What happens now has happened in the past,
and what will happen in the future has happened before.
God makes the same things happen again and again.
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