²² I have seen that there is nothing better than for a person to enjoy his activities^(A) because that is his reward. For who can enable him to see what will happen after he dies?^[a](B)

¹² For who knows what is good for man in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow?^(A) Who can tell man what will happen after him under the sun?

¹² For man certainly does not know his time:^(A) like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap,^(B) so people are trapped in an evil time^(C) as it suddenly falls on them.^(D)