15 Whatever is, has already been,(A) and whatever will be, already is. God repeats what has passed.[a]

The Mystery of Injustice and Death

16 I also observed under the sun: there is wickedness at the place of judgment and there is wickedness at the place of righteousness.(B) 17 I said to myself, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked,(C) since there is a time for every activity and every work.”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:15 Or God calls the past to account, or God seeks what is past, or God seeks the persecuted; lit God seeks [the] pursued

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