The Problem of Injustice and Mortality

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Another thing I observed under the sun: There, in the same place as justice, was wickedness; there, in the same place as righteousness, was wickedness.

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I said to myself, "The righteous and the wicked God will judge, because there is a right time for every intention and for every action."

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Concerning people, I said to myself, "God is testing them, so that they will see that by themselves they are just animals.

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After all, the same things that happen to people happen to animals, the very same thing - just as the one dies, so does the other. Yes, their breath is the same; so that humans are no better than animals; since nothing matters, anyway.

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They all go to the same place; they all come from dust, and they all return to dust.

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Who knows if the spirit of a human being goes upward and the spirit of an animal goes downward into the earth?"

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So I concluded that there is nothing better for a person to do than take joy in his activities, that that is his allotted portion; for who can enable him to see what will happen after him?

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