Ecclesiastes:3

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* All things have their season , and in their times all things pass under heaven . * A time to be born and a time to die . A time to plant , and a time to pluck up that which is planted . * A time to kill , and a time to heal . A time to destroy , and a time to build . * A time to weep , and a time to laugh . A time to mourn , and a time to dance . * A time to scatter stones , and a time to gather . A time to embrace , and a time to be far from embraces . * A time to get , 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 keep silence , and a time to speak . * A time of love , and a time of hatred . A time of war , and a time of peace . * What hath man more of his labour ? * I have seen the trouble , which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it . * He hath made all things good in their time , and hath delivered the world to their consideration , so that man cannot flnd out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end . * And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice , and to do well in this life . * For every man that eateth and drinketh , and seeth good of his labour , this is the gift of God . * I have learned that all the works which God hath made , continue for ever : we cannot add any thing , nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared . * That which hath been made , the same continueth : the things that shall be , have already been : and God restoreth that which is past . * I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness , and in the place of justice iniquity . * And I said in my heart : God shall judge both the just and the wicked , and then shall be the time of every thing . * I said in my heart concerning the sons of men , that God would prove them , and shew them to be like beasts . * Therefore the death of man , and of beasts is one , and the condition of them both is equal : as man dieth , so they also die : all things breathe alike , and man hath nothing more than beast : all things are subject to vanity . * And all things go to one place : of earth they were made , and into earth they return together . * Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward , and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward ? * And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work , and that this is his portion . For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him ?

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