Eccl 3
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All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven.
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A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that
which is planted.
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A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.
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A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
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A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be
far from embraces.
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A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
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A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
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A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.
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What hath man more of his labour?
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I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.
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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.
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And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in
this life.
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For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the
gift of God.
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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.
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That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already
been: and God restoreth that which is past.
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I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice
iniquity.
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And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall
be the time of every thing.
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I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew
them to be like beasts.
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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.
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And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return
together.
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Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit
of the beasts descend downward?
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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?