Ecclesiastes 3:5-12

⁵A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather up stones; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embracing;

⁶A time to seek, and a time to let things be lost; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

⁷A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

⁸A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

⁹What profit hath now he that worketh in that wherein he toileth?

¹⁰I have seen the employment, which God hath given to the sons of men to busy themselves therewith.

¹¹Every thing hath he made beautiful in its proper time: he hath also placed the eternity in their heart, without a man's being able to find out the work that God hath made from the beginning to the end.

¹²I know that there is nothing good inherent in them, but for every one to rejoice and to do what is good during all his life.