15. What now is has already been; what is to be, already is: God retrieves what has gone by.
16. And still under the sun in the judgment place I saw wickedness, and wickedness also in the seat of justice.
17. I said in my heart, both the just and the wicked God will judge, since a time is set for every affair and for every work.
18. I said in my heart: As for human beings, it is God’s way of testing them and of showing that they are in themselves like beasts.