he wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.

For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter,
though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.

Since no man knows the future,
who can tell him what is to come?

No man has power over the wind to contain it;
so no one has power over the day of his death.

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”
For it is not wise to ask such questions.

The end of a matter is better than its beginning,
and patience is better than pride.

I thought in my heart,

“God will bring to judgment
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time for every deed.”

Whatever is has already been,
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.

There is not a righteous man on earth
who does what is right and never sins.

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