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Ecclesiastes 3:15
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

15 [a](A)What now is has already been; what is to be, already is: God retrieves what has gone by.

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  1. 3:15 The verse is difficult. Literally it reads “and God seeks out what was pursued.” It appears to be a variation of the theme in 1:9, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
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