Ecclesiastes 3:14-16

Expanded Bible

¹⁴I know that everything God does will continue forever. People cannot add anything to what God has done, and they cannot take anything away from it. God does it this way to make people ·respect [or be afraid of; 5:7; 7:18; 8:12, 13] him.

¹⁵What happens now has happened in the past,
and what will happen in the future has happened before.
God makes the same things happen again and again.

Unfairness on Earth

¹⁶I also saw this ·here on earth [^Lunder the sun; 1:3]:
·Where there should have been justice [^LThe place of judgment], there was evil;
·where there should have been right [^Lthe place of righteousness; ^Cthe courtroom], there was evil.