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The Works of God

13 Consider the work of God:

Who is able to straighten
    what he has bent?
14 When times are good, be joyful;
    when times are bad, consider this:
God made the one as well as the other,
    so people won’t seek anything outside of his best.

15 I have seen it all[a] during my pointless life:

both a righteous person who dies
    while he is righteous,
and a wicked person who lives to an old age,
    while remaining wicked.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:15 Lit. seen in pointlessness
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:15 Lit. lives long in his evil