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Ecclesiastes observes that outcomes do not always match ability: the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor success to the wise (Ecclesiastes 9:11). It summarizes this unpredictability by saying “time and chance happeneth to them all,” and adds that sudden trouble can catch people unexpectedly (Ecclesiastes 9:11–12).
11I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
12For man also doesn`t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.