Ecclesiastes 8:15-17

American Standard Version

¹⁵ Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: ^[a]for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun. ¹⁶ When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the ^[b]business that is done upon the earth ^[c](for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes), ¹⁷ then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.