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A waiting petitioner watches light move across an empty civic courtyard.
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Ecclesiastes 8:5-7

Time and Judgment

Authority, Delay, and Unsearchable Work · Ecclesiastes 8

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5Whoever keeps a command will experience no harm, and a wise heart knows the proper time and judgment.

6For every matter has its time and judgment, for man's trouble weighs heavily upon him.

7For he does not know what will be, for who can tell him how it will be?

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