Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 - God's Mysterious Plan Allows Injustice To Exist In The World
16 I also examined on earth: where the halls of justice were supposed to be, there was lawlessness; and where the righteous were supposed to be, there was lawlessness. 17I told myself, "God will judge both the righteous and the wicked, because there is a time set to judge every event and every work." 18 "As for human beings," I told myself, "God puts them to the test, that they might see themselves as mere animals." 19 For what happens to people also happens to animals a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless. 20 All of them go to one place: all of them originate from dust, and all of them return to dust. 21 Who knows whether the spirit of human beings ascends, and whether the spirit of animals descends to the earth? 22 I concluded that it is worthwhile for people to find joy in their accomplishments, because that is their inheritance, since who can see what will exist after them?