Study Desk

I again saw under the sun that the ^(C1)race is not to the swift and the ^(C2)battle is not to the warriors, and neither is bread to the wise nor ^(C3)wealth to the discerning, nor favor to the skillful; for time and ^(C4)chance overtake them all.

For indeed, a person does not ^(C1)know his time: like fish that are caught in a treacherous net and ^(C2)birds caught in a snare, so the sons of mankind are ^(C3)ensnared at an evil time when it ^(C4)suddenly falls on them.