Ecclesiastes:3

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* To every thing there is a season , and a time for every purpose under the heavens : * A time to be born , and a time to die ; a time to plant , and a time to root 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 seek , 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 does he have who works in that in which he labors ? * I have seen the task which God has given to the sons of men to keep busy . * He has made everything beautiful in its time ; also He has set eternity in their hearts , so that no man can find out the work that God has made from the beginning to the end . * I know that there is no good for man , but to rejoice and to do good in his life . * 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 , nor anything taken from it ; and God does it so that men should fear before Him . * That which has been , is now ; and that which is to be , already has been ; and God exacts what is pursued . * Moreover I saw under the sun in the place of judgment , that wickedness was there ; and in the place of righteousness , that wickedness 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 manner of the sons of men , that God tests them , that they might see that they themselves are beasts . * For that which happens to the sons of men also happens to beasts , even one thing happens to them . As this one dies , so that one dies ; yea , they all have one breath ; so that a man has no advantage over a beast ; for all is vanity . * All go to one place ; all are of the dust , and all return to dust again . * Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward , and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth ? * Therefore I have seen that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works ; for that is his portion ; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him ?

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