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14 I know everything God does endures forever;
    nothing can be added to it, and nothing can be taken from it,
        for God so acts that humans[a] might stand in awe before him.
15 What is—it already was,
    and what will be—it already is,
        for God will do what he has done.[b]

God’s Mysterious Plan Allows Injustice to Exist in the World

16 I saw something else under the sun: instead of justice there was evil; instead of righteousness there was wickedness.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:14 Or “they”
  2. Ecclesiastes 3:15 Literally “God seeks what is pursued”