| 章 |
| 3:1 |
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
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| 3:2 |
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
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| 3:3 |
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
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| 3:4 |
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
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| 3:5 |
a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
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| 3:6 |
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
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| 3:7 |
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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| 3:8 |
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
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| 3:9 |
What gain have the workers from their toil?
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| 3:10 |
I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.
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| 3:11 |
He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
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| 3:12 |
I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;
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| 3:13 |
moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.
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| 3:14 |
I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him.
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| 3:15 |
That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is; and God seeks out what has gone by.
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| 3:16 |
Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well.
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| 3:17 |
I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.
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| 3:18 |
I said in my heart with regard to human beings that God is testing them to show that they are but animals.
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| 3:19 |
For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.
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| 3:20 |
All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
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| 3:21 |
Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?
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| 3:22 |
So I saw that there is nothing better than that all should enjoy their work, for that is their lot; who can bring them to see what will be after them?
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