4 Time to weep, and time to laugh; time to bewail, and time to dance.
5 Time to scatter stones, and time to gather (them) together; time to embrace, and time to be far from embracings, or embraces.
6 Time to get, and time to lose; time to keep, and time to cast away. (Time to get, and time to set free; time to keep, and time to throw away.)
7 Time to cut, and time to sew together; time to be still, and time to speak, (or time to be silent, and time to speak).
8 Time to love, and time of hatred; time of battle, and time of peace. (Time to love, and time to hate; time to fight, and time to make peace.)
9 What hath a man more of his travail? (What more hath a person for all of his labour?)
10 I saw the torment, which God gave to the sons of men, that they be occupied therein. (I saw the torment, which God gave to the sons and daughters of men, and with which they be occupied.)
11 God made all things good in their time, and gave the world to disputing of them, that a man find not (out) the work that God hath wrought from the beginning unto the end. (God made all things good in their time, and let the world dispute over them, but no one shall understand the work that God hath wrought from the beginning unto the end.)