Ecclesiastes 8:14-17

New International Version

¹⁴ There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve.^(A) This too, I say, is meaningless.^{(B) 15} So I commend the enjoyment of life^(C), because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink^(D) and be glad.^(E) Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

¹⁶ When I applied my mind to know wisdom^(F) and to observe the labor that is done on earth^(G)—people getting no sleep day or night— ¹⁷ then I saw all that God has done.^(H) No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.^(I)