Ecclesiastes:3

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* To everything there is a season , A time for every purpose under heaven : * A time to be born , And a time to die ; A time to plant , And a time to pluck what is planted ; * A time to kill , And a time to heal ; A time to break down , And a time to build up ; * A time to weep , And a time to laugh ; A time to mourn , And a time to dance ; * A time to cast away stones , And a time to gather stones ; A time to embrace , And a time to refrain from embracing ; * A time to gain , And a time to lose ; A time to keep , And a time to throw away ; * A time to tear , And a time to sew ; A time to keep silence , And a time to speak ; * A time to love , And a time to hate ; A time of war , And a time of peace . * What profit has the worker from that in which he labors ? * I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied . * He has made everything beautiful in its time . Also He has put eternity in their hearts , except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end . * I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice , and to do good in their lives , * and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor--it is the gift of God . * I know that whatever God does , It shall be forever . Nothing can be added to it , And nothing taken from it . God does it , that men should fear before Him . * That which is has already been , And what is to be has already been ; And God requires an account of what is past . * Moreover I saw under the sun : In the place of judgment , Wickedness was there ; And in the place of righteousness , Iniquity was there . * I said in my heart , "God shall judge the righteous and the wicked , For there is a time there for every purpose and for every work ." * I said in my heart , "Concerning the condition of the sons of men , God tests them , that they may see that they themselves are like animals ." * For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals ; one thing befalls them : as one dies , so dies the other . Surely , they all have one breath ; man has no advantage over animals , for all is vanity . * All go to one place : all are from the dust , and all return to dust . * Who knows the spirit of the sons of men , which goes upward , and the spirit of the animal , which goes down to the earth ? * So I perceived that nothing is better than that a man should rejoice in his own works , for that is his heritage . For who can bring him to see what will happen after him ?

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