Ecclesiastes 3:9-15 - The God-Given Task

⁹ What profit does the one that works have in that in which he labours? ¹⁰ I have seen the travail which God has given to the sons of men that they may be occupied in it. ¹¹ He has made every thing beautiful in his time: even the world he has given over to their will, in such a way that no man can attain to this work that God makes from the beginning to the end. ¹² I have learned that there is nothing better for them, but to rejoice and to do good in his life. ¹³ And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labour; it is the gift of God. ¹⁴ I have understood that whatever God does, it shall be for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it because God does it that men should fear before him. ¹⁵ That which has been is now, and that which is to be has already been and God shall seek that which is past.