Ecclesiastes 3:5-15

⁵A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.

⁶A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.

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

⁸A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.

⁹What hath man more of his labour?

¹⁰I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.

¹¹He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.

¹²And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.

¹³For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.

¹⁴I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.

¹⁵That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.