Ecclesiastes 3:14-16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
14 I recognized that whatever God does will endure forever; there is no adding to it, or taking from it. Thus has God done that he may be revered. 15 [a](A)What now is has already been; what is to be, already is: God retrieves what has gone by.
The Problem of Retribution. 16 (B)And still under the sun in the judgment place I saw wickedness, and wickedness also in the seat of justice.
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