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Ecclesiastes 7:13-16 New International Version (NIV)

13. Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?

14. When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.

15. In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: the righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

16. Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise— why destroy yourself?

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