13 Consider (A)the work of God:
    (B)who can make straight what he has made crooked?

14 (C)In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, (D)so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

15 In my (E)vain[a] life I have seen everything. There is (F)a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who (G)prolongs his life in his evildoing.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:15 The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)

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