ECC 3:15 Parallel Verse View

Note: This view shows ‘verses’ which are not natural language units and hence sometimes only part of a sentence will be visible. Normally the OET discourages the reading of individual ‘verses’, but this view is only designed as a tool for doing comparisons of different translations. Click on any Bible version abbreviation down the left-hand side to see the verse in more of its context. The OET segments on this page are still very early looks into the unfinished texts of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check these texts in advance before using in public.

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Whatever there is, it already was,
⇔ and whatever is to be, it already is,
⇔ and God will watch whatever’s being worked on.

Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Τὸ γενόμενον ἤδη ἐστί, καὶ ὅσα τοῦ γίνεσθαι ἤδη γέγονε, καὶ ὁ Θεὸς ζητήσει τὸν διωκόμενον.
(To genomenon aʸdaʸ esti, kai hosa tou ginesthai aʸdaʸ gegone, kai ho Theos zaʸtaʸsei ton diōkomenon. )

BrTr That which has been is now; and whatever things are appointed to be have already been; and God will seek out that which is past.

ULT Whatever that is, already it was
⇔ and that which is to be, already it is.
⇔ And God will seek what is pursued.

UST Things that exist now have already existed previously,
⇔ and things that will happen in the future have already happened previously;
⇔ God causes us to want to understand mysteries.

BSB What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.

OEB Whatever is, has happened already; and what is yet to happen, already is: for that which has drifted (into the past) God seeketh out again.

WEBBE That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been;
⇔ for God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past.

LSV What is that which has been? Already it is, and that which [is] to be has already been, and God requires that which is pursued.

FBV Whatever was, is; and whatever will be, has been, and God examines the whole of time.[fn]

3:15 Literally, “God seeks what has been chased away.” This phrase has been variously interpreted, but perhaps the best in the context is that time is open to God—things forgotten by human beings (“chased away”) are still accessible to him and are what he examines (“seeks”).

T4T Things that exist now have already existed previously,
⇔ and things that will happen in the future have already happened previously;
⇔ God causes the same things to happen many times.

LEB No LEB ECC book available

BBE Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.

Moff No Moff ECC book available

JPS That which is hath been long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God seeketh that which is pursued.

ASV 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.

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

YLT What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which [is] to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

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

3.15 Elohim

RV That which is hath been already; and that which is to be hath already been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away.
(That which is hath/has been already; and that which is to be hath/has already been: and God seeketh/seeks again that which is passed away. )

SLT What was, it is already; and what to be, was already; and God will seek him being driven away.

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

KJB-1769 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.[fn]
(That which hath/has been is now; and that which is to be hath/has already been; and God requireth that which is past. )

3.15 that which is past: Heb. that which is driven away

KJB-1611 [fn]That which hath beene, is now: and that which is to be, hath alreadie beene, and God requireth that which is past.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

3:15 Heb. that which is driuen away.

Bshps No Bshps ECC book available

Gnva What is that that hath bene? that is nowe: and that that shalbe, hath now bene: for God requireth that which is past.
(What is that that hath/has bene? that is now: and that that shall be, hath/has now bene: for God requireth that which is past. )

Cvdl No Cvdl ECC book available

Wycl No Wycl ECC book available

Luth No Luth ECC book available

ClVg Quod factum est, ipsum permanet; quæ futura sunt jam fuerunt, et Deus instaurat quod abiit.]
(That done it_is, him continues; which the_future are already they_were, and God establishes that he_went/is_gone.] )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT ECC book available

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