Ecclesiastes:3

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* For everything there is a season . There is a time for every purpose under the sun . * There is a time to be born , and a time to die ; a time to plant , and a time to pull up 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 throw away stones , and a time to gather stones together ; a time to embrace , and a time to refrain from embracing ; * a time to get and a time to lose ; a time to keep and a time to throw away . * There is a time to tear and a time to sew , a time to keep silence and a time to speak . * There is also a time to love and a time to hate , a time of war and a time of peace . * What profit is there to the worker in his work ? * I have seen the task that God has given with which the sons of men are occupied . * He made everything appropriate in its time . God placed eternity in the heart of man . For man is unable to see the works of God from the first to the last . * I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to rejoice and to do good works in life . * 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 will be forever . Nothing can be added to it , nor any thing taken from it . God does it in order that men should reverence him . * That which is has already been and that which is to be has already been . God seeks what has passed by . * I saw under the sun the place of judgment and wickedness was there . And wickedness was in the place of righteousness . * I said in my heart , »God should judge the righteous and the wicked for there is a time for every purpose and for every work .« * I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men , »God tested them that they might see that they are like animals .« * What happens to the sons of men also happens to animals . As the one dies so the other dies . Yes , they all have one breath so that a man has no advantage over animals . For all is vanity . * All go to one place . All came from the dust and all return to dust . * Who knows the breath of man that goes upward , and the breath of the animal that goes downward to the earth ? * I see there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works . That is his portion . Who will bring him to see what will happen after him ?

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