Ecclesiastes 3:9-11

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The God-Given Task

⁹ What gain have the workers from their toil?^{(A) 10} I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.^{(B) 11} He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover, he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.^(C)