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15 Everything that now exists has already been.
    And what is coming has existed before.
    God will judge those who treat others badly.

16 Here’s something else I saw on earth.

Where people should be treated right,
    they are treated wrong.
Where people should be treated fairly,
    they are treated unfairly.

17 I said to myself,

“God will judge
    godly and sinful people alike.
He has a time for every act.
    He has a time to judge everything that is done.”

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15 Whatever is has already been,(A)
    and what will be has been before;(B)
    and God will call the past to account.[a]

16 And I saw something else under the sun:

In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
    in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

17 I said to myself,

“God will bring into judgment(C)
    both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
    a time to judge every deed.”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:15 Or God calls back the past