Chapter 9 verse 11 again I saw under the…

Chapter 9 verse 11 again I saw under the sun that the race is not won by the swift, nor the battle by the brave, nor's bread one by the wise common or wealth by the discerning, nor favor one by the learned. Rather the time of misfortune the falls them all. This is a continuation of the previous thought which is you would think that the swift are going to win and the brave are going to prevail etc etc but life just does not happen that way.

— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Ecclesiastes by King Solomon

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And Kohelet did not stop at the comfortable cosmic view. He admitted the part we least want to hear — that the race is not always won by the swift, nor the battle by the strong, nor bread by the wise, for time and chance happen to them all, and that in the end the same fate befalls everyone alike, the righteous and the wicked together. He had watched good people perish in their goodness and bad ones prosper for years; he watched a man labor his whole life only to hand the results to a successor he never chose, and caught the smaller daily ironies too — that the laborer sleeps sweetly whether he eats little or much, while the very abundance of the rich man will not let him rest. — Takeoff Into Chaos

And it spares no one. Time comes for everyone at the same rate, and under the sun, as Ecclesiastes saw, the race is not even always won by the swift. The clock does not care how clever you are. — Time

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