Ecclesiastes:3

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* To all things there is a time , and a season for every matter under heaven . * A time of birth , and a time to die ; a time to plant , and a time to pluck up what has been planted ; * a time to kill , and a time to heal ; a time to pull down , and a time to build up ; * a time to weep , and a time to laugh ; a time to lament , and a time to dance ; * a time to throw stones , and a time to gather stones together ; a time to embrace , and a time to abstain from embracing ; * a time to seek , and a time to lose ; a time to keep , and a time to cast away ; * a time to rend , and a time to sew ; a time to be silent , and a time to speak ; * a time to love , and a time to hate ; a time of war , and a time of peace . * What advantage has he that works in those things wherein he labours ? * I have seen all the trouble , which God has given to the sons of men to be troubled with . * All the things which he has made are beautiful in his time : he has also set the whole (note :)Or , age (:note ) world in their heart , that man might not find out the work which God has wrought from the beginning even to the end . * I know that there is no good in them , except for a man to rejoice , and to do good in his life . * Also in the case of every man who shall eat and drink , and see good in all his labour , this is a gift of God . * I know that whatsoever things God has done , they shall be for ever : it is impossible to add to it , and it is impossible to take away from it : and God has done it , that men may fear before him . * 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 . * And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgement , there was the ungodly one ; and the place of righteousness , there was the godly one . * And I said in my heart , God will judge the righteous and the ungodly : for there is a time there for every action and for every work . * I said in my heart , concerning the speech of the sons of man , God will judge them , and that to shew that they are breasts . * Also to them is the event of the sons of man , and the event of the brute ; one event befalls them : as is the death of the one , so also the death of the other ; and there is one breath to all : and what has the man more than the brute ? nothing ; for all is vanity . * All go to one place ; all were formed of the dust , and all will return to dust . * And who has seen the spirit of the sons of man , whether it goes upward ? and the spirit of the beast , whether it goes downward to the earth ? * And I saw that there was no good , but that wherein a man shall rejoice in his works , for it is his portion , for who shall bring him to see any thing of that which shall be after him ?

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