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15 What happened in the past has happened, and what will happen in the future will happen. But God wants to help those who have been treated badly.[a]

16 I also saw these things in this life[b]: I saw that the courts should be filled with goodness and fairness, but there is evil there now. 17 So I said to myself, “God has planned a time for everything, and he has planned a time to judge everything people do. He will judge good people and bad people.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:15 Or “What happens now also happened in the past. What happens in the future has also happened before. God makes things happen again and again.”
  2. Ecclesiastes 3:16 in this life Literally, “under the sun.”

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