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15 Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been. God makes whatever has already passed come again.[a]

There Is No Justice

16 I saw something else under the sun: In the place where justice should be, there was wickedness, and in the place for righteousness, there was wickedness. 17 I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked. Yes, there will be a time for every case to be settled before God.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:15 Or will call the past to account. The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain.
  2. Ecclesiastes 3:17 Literally a time for every matter, for every action there