Ecclesiastes 3:1-13 ▼

1 To all a season, and a time to every inclination under the heavens:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up the planting.

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build:

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 collect stones a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embracing:

6 A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to watch, and a time to cast away.

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, 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 the excellence of him working in what he labored?

10 I saw the labor which God gave to the sons of man to be humbled in it.

11 He made everything beautiful in his time: also he gave hidden time in their heart, so that man shall not find the work which God did from the beginning and even to the end.

12 I knew that no good is in them, but to rejoice and to do good in his life.

13 And also every man shall eat and drink, and see the good in all his labor; it is the gift of God.