All share a common destiny—the righteous and the
wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer
sacrifices and those who do not.
The hearts of people,
moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they
live, and afterward they join the dead.
As it is with the good, so with the
sinful as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to
take them. This is the evil in everything that happens under the
sun.The same destiny overtakes all. Anyone who is
among the living has hope—even a live dog
is better off than a dead lion .For the living know
that they will die ,but the dead know nothing;they have no further
reward,and even their name is forgotten.Their
love, their hate and their jealousy have long
since vanished never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong, nor does food come
to the wise or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned but time and chance happen to them
all.Moreover,
no one knows when their hour will come:
As fish are caught in a cruel
net,or birds are taken in a snare,so people are trapped by
evil times that fall
unexpectedly upon them.