Ecclesiastes 3
3There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:H2165H6256H2656H80642a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,H6256H3205H6256H4191H6256H5193H6256H6131H51933a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,H6256H2026H6256H7495H6256H6555H6256H11294a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,H6256H1058H6256H7832H6256H5594H6256H75405a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain,H6256H7993H68H6256H3664H68H3664H6256H2263H6256H7368H22636a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,H6256H1245H6256H6H6256H8104H6256H79937a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,H6256H7167H6256H8609H6256H2814H6256H16968a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.H6256H157H6256H8130H6256H4421H6256H79659What does the worker gain from his toil?H3504H6213H834H600110I have seen the burden God has laid on men.H7200H6045H430H5414H1121H120H603111He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.H6213H3303H6256H5414H5769H3820H1097H120H4672H4639H430H6213H7218H549012I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live.H3045H2896H8055H6213H2896H241613That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God.H120H398H8354H7200H2896H5999H4991H43014I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.H3045H430H6213H5769H369H3254H1639H430H6213H3372H644015Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.H3528H3528H430H1245H729116And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.H7200H8121H4725H4941H7562H4725H6664H756217I thought in my heart, "God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time for every deed."H559H3820H430H8199H6662H7563H6256H2656H463918I also thought, "As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.H559H3820H1700H1121H120H430H1305H7200H1992H92919Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless.H4745H1121H120H4745H929H259H4745H4194H4194H2088H259H7307H120H4195H929H189220All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.H1980H259H4725H6083H7725H6083H772521Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?"H3045H7307H1121H120H5927H4605H7307H929H3381H4295H77622So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him?H7200H2896H120H8055H4639H2506H935H7200H310
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