Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld's contribution...

On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created; who will live and who will die; who will die at his predestined time and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword, who by beast, who by famine, who by thirst, who by storm, who by plague, who by strangulation, and who by stoning. Who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried, who will enjoy tranquillity and who will suffer, who will be impoverished and who will be enriched, who will be degraded and who will be exalted.

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I have seen longer versions of this prayer. But you get the idea. It sums up how little we know of our future. When Yahweh says at "the burning bush" that "I will be what I will be" (there a variety of meanings placed upon this incantation.)

I read it as G-d saying that he will do what he'll do; you do what you think is appropriate, beneficial and constructive.

That is often called The Protestant Ethic.

Ben