i get well intentioned thoughts behind the message.. but ecc 9:11 carries a different context from that which you are adapting, did u read it beginning at least from v.1 to the end of chapter 9.

Blessed is the one who realises his/her time and chance in life? thats great, I always wanted to win at lottery and guess what , at 4 am in the morning I receive an sms from england saying that my phonenr was selected and I won 1 million euros! Reverend Paul Rogers from London confirmed it through email how lucky I am. . too bad im not the one to realise my chance in life . Lol

''...the battle is not for the strong...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all'' - good good

@xfrankie. i hav eread the whole chapter but just trying to point out something from 9;11, particularly time and chance acording to Gods wisdom. look it this wauy, in my country, many have studied a cetain area but only few amonst those of the same qualification are employed. if it were that all the skilled got favours, then everyone of the same qualification would get the same favour.

it doesn't say time and chance according to God's wisdom....just time and chance happen to all.. and on a seperate note God doesn't work with chance happenings.

Solomon speaks of various vanities, of only one certainity, of man's limited wisdom, of occurences that happen equally to the good and evil alike, also those unfairly, all that appears to him that life is futile, there is no hope since it appears...everything is left to time and chance, COMPLETELY REGARDLESS OF ALL YOUR EFFORTS...

v.1 He acknowledges the actions of the righteous and wise are in God's HOWEVER no one knows whether or not God will favor them.. FROM Chapter 1.. He's point is clear up, vanity of vanities, all is vanity, Man's labor and its futile end... Chapter 9.. he says what happens appears to be merely luck, NOT live by the luck, by the end of the book at Chapter 12, He's saying Live, but Live according to God's and His Glory in everything, sorrow or joy, apart from God, everything people do is to no

Apart from God, everything people do is to no purpose, since in the end Death comes to all, what people do is soon forgotten, there's that example of the poor wise man..

ealier mentioned genesis 2:20 '...Wisdom and might are His.'
so all comes at a time and chance given by Him accirding to His wisdom. The it is up to us to realise that and then work on it

its not in Genesis, its Daniel