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Chapter 3 |
| 1 | To every thing
there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: |
| 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; |
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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; |
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7 | A time to rend, and a time to sew; a
time to keep silence, and a time to speak; |
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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. |
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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. |
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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? |
