17I thought in my heart, "God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed."


In Context

14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.

15 Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.

16 And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment- wickedness was there, in the place of justice-wickedness was there.

17 I thought in my heart, "God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed."

18 I also thought, "As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.

19 Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath ; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 3:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:17I 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:17And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:17I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:17I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:17I 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:17I said in my heart, |God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:17I said in my heart, 'The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time is to every matter and for every work there.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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