The basis for this joy is the principle of divine sovereignty. Now the days of our lives are in the hands of God. The first verse here says that there is a time and season for everything under heaven (v. 1). So who apportions these times and seasons? All these tasks which follow are God-given (v. 10); He makes everything beautiful in its time (v. 11); God’s inscrutable actions (v. 11) are forever (v. 14). If it is good, then God gave it. If it is travail, then God gave it also.
