Ecclesiastes 8:16-17

John Burnett:  ¹⁶ When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task, which has been done on the earth (even though one should ^[a]never sleep day or night), ¹⁷ and I saw every work of God, I concluded that man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not discover; and though the wise man should say, “I know,” he cannot discover.  The haughtiness of man thinks they can know all of the things under the sun.  God will only reveal what I wants us to know and those who think they know really don’t know anything that means anything.

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Tomorrow’s reading for Ecclesiastes 9:1-4

9 This, too, I carefully explored: Even though the actions of godly and wise people are in God’s hands, no one knows whether God will show them favor. ² The same destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether righteous or wicked, good or bad,^[a] ceremonially clean or unclean, religious or irreligious. Good people receive the same treatment as sinners, and people who make promises to God are treated like people who don’t.

³ It seems so wrong that everyone under the sun suffers the same fate. Already twisted by evil, people choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. There is nothing ahead but death anyway. ⁴ There is hope only for the living. As they say, “It’s better to be a live dog than a dead lion!”