¹⁰I also saw sinful people being buried. They used to come and go from the place of worship. And others praised them in the city where they worshiped. That doesn’t have any meaning either.

¹¹Sometimes the sentence for a crime isn’t carried out quickly. So people make plans to commit even more crimes.

¹²An evil man may be guilty of a hundred crimes and still live a long time. But I know that things will go better with men who have great respect for God. ¹³Sinful people don’t respect God. So things won’t go well with them. Like a shadow, they won’t be around very long.

¹⁴Here’s something else on this earth that doesn’t have any meaning. Sometimes godly men get what sinful people should receive. And sinful men get what godly people should receive. Here’s what I’m telling you. That doesn’t have any meaning either.

¹⁵So I advise everyone to enjoy life. A man on this earth can’t do anything better than eat and drink and be glad. Then he will enjoy his work. He’ll be happy all the days of the life God has given him on earth.

¹⁶I used my mind to understand what it really means to be wise. I wanted to observe the hard work man does on earth. He doesn’t close his eyes and go to sleep day or night.

¹⁷I saw everything God has done. No one can understand what happens on earth. Man might try very hard to figure it out. But he still can’t discover what it all means. A wise man might claim he knows. But he can’t really understand it either.

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