13 also (A)that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is (B)God's gift to man.

14 I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; (C)nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. 15 That which is, (D)already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God (E)seeks what has been driven away.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:15 Hebrew what has been pursued

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