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13 Consider what Elohim has done! Who can straighten what Elohim has bent?

A Truth for Every Situation

14 When times are good, be happy. But when times are bad, consider this: Elohim has made the one time as well as the other so that mortals cannot predict their future.

Mortals Don’t Get What They Deserve

15 I have seen it all in my pointless life:

Righteous people die in spite of being righteous.
    Wicked people go on living in spite of being wicked.

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13 Consider what God has done:(A)

Who can straighten
    what he has made crooked?(B)
14 When times are good, be happy;
    but when times are bad, consider this:
God has made the one
    as well as the other.(C)
Therefore, no one can discover
    anything about their future.

15 In this meaningless life(D) of mine I have seen both of these:

the righteous perishing in their righteousness,
    and the wicked living long in their wickedness.(E)

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