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sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up,
that he may give to
him that is
good before God. This also
is
vanity and vexation of spirit.
CHAPTER 3
To every
thing there is
a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2
A time to be born,
and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up
that which is
planted;
3
A time to kill, and
a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
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 gather stones
together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6
A time to get, and a time to
lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep
silence, 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 profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10
I have seen the travail, which
God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11
He hath made every
thing
beautiful in
his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God
maketh from the beginning to the end.
12
I know that
there is
no good in them, but for
a man
to
rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13
And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the
good of all his labour, it
is
the gift of God.
14
I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for
ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth
it,
that
men
should fear
before him.
15
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God
requireth that which is past.
16
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment,
that
wickedness
was
there; and the
place of righteousness,
that
iniquity
was
there.
17
I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous
and the wicked: for
there is
a time there for every purpose and for every work.
18
I said in mine
heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might
see that they themselves are beasts.
19
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts;
even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath;
so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all
is
vanity.
20
All go unto one place; all are
of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
21
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the
spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
22
Wherefore I perceive that
there is
nothing
better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that
is
his portion: for who shall bring
him to see what shall be after him?
CHAPTER 4
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears
of
such as were
oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors
there
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