◄ Ecclesiastes 3:15 ►
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Good News Translation
Whatever happens or can happen has already happened before. God makes the same thing happen again and again.

New Revised Standard Version
That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is; and God seeks out what has gone by.

Contemporary English Version
Everything that happens has happened before, and all that will be has already been--God does everything over and over again.

New American Bible
What now is has already been; what is to be, already is: God retrieves what has gone by.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.

which hath

Ecclesiastes 1:9,10 What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done. . . .

Context
God's Works Remain Forever
…14I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared. 15That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:9
What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.

Ecclesiastes 2:12
I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I that he can follow the King his maker?)

Ecclesiastes 6:10
He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is a man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.

Ecclesiastes 3:14
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