Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

Good News Translation

9 I thought long and hard about all this and saw that God controls the actions of wise and righteous people, even their love and their hate. No one knows anything about what lies ahead. ² It makes no difference.^[a] The same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the bad,^[b] to those who are religious and those who are not, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. A good person is no better off than a sinner; one who takes an oath is no better off than one who does not.