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Ecclesiastes 3:17
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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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  1. 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).
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Ecclesiastes 3:17
New International Version

17 I said to myself,

“God will bring into judgment(A)
    both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
    a time to judge every deed.”(B)

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Ecclesiastes 3:17
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17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

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Ecclesiastes 9:12
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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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Ecclesiastes 9:12
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12 Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come:

As fish are caught in a cruel net,
    or birds are taken in a snare,
so people are trapped by evil times(A)
    that fall unexpectedly upon them.(B)

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Ecclesiastes 9:12
King James Version

12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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