Ecclesiastes 3:5-15

⁵A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

⁶A time to seek, 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 to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

⁹What profit hath he that worketh in that he laboureth?

¹⁰I have seen the task which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

¹¹He hath made every thing beautiful in its time; also He hath set the world in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

¹²I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to get pleasure so long as they live.

¹³But also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy pleasure for all his labour, is the gift of God.

¹⁴I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it; and God hath so made it, that men should fear before Him.

¹⁵That which is hath been long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God seeketh that which is pursued.