Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 - God's Mysterious Plan Allows Injustice To Exist In The World
16 I saw something else under the sun: instead of justice [there was] evil; instead of righteousness [there was] wickedness. 17 So I said {to myself}, "God will surely judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time [of judgment] for every deed and every work." 18 I said to myself concerning {humans}, "God sifts them in order to show them that they are like beasts." 19 For the fate of {humans} and the fate of the beast is {the same}. The death of the one is like the death of the other, for {both are mortal}. Man has no advantage over the beast, for both are fleeting. 20 Both go to one place--both came from dust and both return to dust. 21 For no one knows [whether] the spirit of a human ascends [to heaven] and [whether] the spirit of the beast descends to the ground! 22 So I concluded that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy [the fruit of] his labor, for this is his lot in life. {For no one knows what will happen in the future.}