Ecclesiastes 3:17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
17 (A)I said in my heart, both the just and the wicked God will judge, since a time is set for every affair and for every work.[a]
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- 3:17 A time is set…work: another possible reading would see this verse referring to a judgment in or after death: “a time for every affair and for every work there” (that is, in death or in Sheol).
Ecclesiastes 9:12
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
12 Human beings no more know their own time than fish taken in the fatal net or birds trapped in the snare; like these, mortals are caught when an evil time suddenly falls upon them.
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