The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but
time and chance happeneth to them all.
ECC 9:12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are
taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so
are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly
upon them.
ECC 9:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed
great unto me:
ECC 9:14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came
a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks
against it:
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