Ecclesiastes 3:5-17

⁵A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing.

⁶A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.

⁷A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.

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

⁹What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

¹⁰I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

¹¹The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

¹²I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

¹³yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it is a gift of God.

¹⁴I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.

¹⁵What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which is to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

¹⁶And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment — there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness — there is the wicked.

¹⁷I said in my heart, 'The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time is to every matter and for every work there.'