Ben Sira 39:16
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16 The works of God are all of them good;
he supplies for every need in its own time.(A)
Genesis 1:29-31
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29 [a](A)God also said: See, I give you every seed-bearing plant on all the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; 30 and to all the wild animals, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the earth, I give all the green plants for food. And so it happened. 31 God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed—the sixth day.(B)
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Ecclesiastes 3:11
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11 (A)God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless[a] into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.
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- 3:11 The timeless: others translate “eternity,” “the world,” or “darkness.” The author credits God with keeping human beings ignorant about God’s “work”—present and future.
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