For no one knows what is best for a person during his life – during the few days of his fleeting life – for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.

Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past.

A generation comes and a generation goes, but the earth remains the same through the ages.

Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.