3For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:H2165H6256H2656H80642a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;H6256H3205H6256H4191H6256H5193H6256H6131H51933a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;H6256H2026H6256H7495H6256H6555H6256H11294a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;H6256H1058H6256H7832H6256H5594H6256H75405a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;H6256H7993H68H6256H3664H68H3664H6256H2263H6256H7368H22636a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;H6256H1245H6256H6H6256H8104H6256H79937a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;H6256H7167H6256H8609H6256H2814H6256H16968a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.H6256H157H6256H8130H6256H4421H6256H7965
The God-Given Task
9What gain have the workers from their toil?H3504H6213H834H600110I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.H7200H6045H430H5414H1121H120H603111He 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.H6213H3303H6256H5414H5769H3820H1097H120H4672H4639H430H6213H7218H549012I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;H3045H2896H8055H6213H2896H241613moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.H120H398H8354H7200H2896H5999H4991H43014I 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.H3045H430H6213H5769H369H3254H1639H430H6213H3372H644015That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is; and God seeks out what has gone by.H3528H3528H430H1245H7291
Judgment and the Future Belong to God
16Moreover 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.H7200H8121H4725H4941H7562H4725H6664H756217I 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.H559H3820H430H8199H6662H7563H6256H2656H463918I said in my heart with regard to human beings that God is testing them to show that they are but animals.H559H3820H1700H1121H120H430H1305H7200H1992H92919For 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.H4745H1121H120H4745H929H259H4745H4194H4194H2088H259H7307H120H4195H929H189220All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.H1980H259H4725H6083H7725H6083H772521Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?H3045H7307H1121H120H5927H4605H7307H929H3381H4295H77622So 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?H7200H2896H120H8055H4639H2506H935H7200H310
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