Ecclesiastes Chapter 3 (KJV)
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1. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Image | |
2. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; | |
3. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; | |
4. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; | |
5. A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; | |
6. A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; | |
7. A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; | |
8. A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. | |
9. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? | |
10. I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. | |
11. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. | |
12. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. | |
13. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. | |
14. I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. Image | |
15. That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. | |
16. And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. | |
17. I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. | |
18. I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. | |
19. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. | |
20. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. | |
21. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? | |
22. Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? |
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