“I 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.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 3 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.