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Everything has its appointed hour,
there is a time for all things under heaven:
2a time for birth, a time for death,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3a time to kill, a time to heal
a time to break down and a time to build,
4a time to cry, a time to laugh
a time to mourn, a time to dance,
5a time to scatter and a time to gather,
a time to embrace, a time to refrain,
6a time to seek, a time to lose
a time to keep, a time to throw away,
7a time to tear, a time to sew
a time for silence and a time for speech,
8a time for love, a time for hate
a time for war, a time for peace. 9 What does a busy man gain from all his toil? 10 I have watched the interests that God sets the sons of men to labour at; 11 he assigned each to its proper time, but for the mind of man he has appointed mystery, that man may never fathom God’s own purpose from beginning to end. 12 For men, I find, there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they are alive; 13 it is indeed God’s very gift to man, that he should eat and drink and be happy as he toils. 14 Also, I find, whatever God may do shall stand unchanged; nothing can be added to it, nothing can be taken from it. So God orders things, that men may stand in awe of him. 15 Whatever is, it has already been; whatever is to be, already is; and God is ever bringing back what disappears.
16 Once more I looked into the world, and there I saw wrong within the courts of justice, iniquity within the courts of religion! 17 [[Yes, but (I said to myself) God will deal one day with the just and the unjust; ’tis he who appoints a time for everything, for all that men devise and practise.]] 18 This, I reflected, is God showing what men are, to let them see they are no better than the beasts. 19 For man’s fate is a beast’s fate, one fate befalls them both; as the one dies so the other dies, the same breath is in them all; man is no better than a beast, for both are vanity, 20 both are bound for the same end; both sprang from the dust, and to the dust they both return. 21 Who can tell if the spirit of man goes upward, while the spirit of a beast goes down into the earth? 22 So I saw the best thing for man was to be happy in his work; that is what he gets out of life--for who can show him what is to happen afterwards?