16 And moreover, I have seen under the Sun the place of judgment, where was wickedness, and the place of justice, where was iniquity.

17 I thought in mine heart, God will judge the just and the wicked: for time is [a]there for every purpose and for every work.

18 I considered in mine heart the state of the children of men, that God had [b]purged them: yet to see too, they are in themselves as beasts.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:17 Meaning, with God, howsoever man neglect his duty.
  2. Ecclesiastes 3:18 And made them pure in their first creation.

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