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Ecclesiastes 3:15

15 nThat which is has already been,

And what is to be has already been;

And God 2requires an account of 3what is past.

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Ecclesiastes 3:15 — The New International Version (NIV)

15 Whatever is has already been,

and what will be has been before;

and God will call the past to account.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — English Standard Version (ESV)

15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — New Living Translation (NLT)

15 What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — New Century Version (NCV)

15 What happens now has happened in the past,

and what will happen in the future has happened before.

God makes the same things happen again and again.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — American Standard Version (ASV)

15 That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

15 That which is was long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God bringeth back again that which is past.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

15 Whatever has happened ⸤in the past⸥ is present now. Whatever is going to happen ⸤in the future⸥ has already happened ⸤in the past⸥. God will call the past to account. 

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

15 Whatever is, has already been, and whatever will be, already is. God repeats what has passed.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is; and God seeks out what has gone by.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

15 What is—it already was,

and what will be—it already is,

for God will do what he has done.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

15 Everything that now exists has already been.

And what is coming has existed before.

God will judge those who treat others badly.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

15 That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by.


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