Ecclesiastes 3:6-16

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.

¹³For also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy what is good for all his toil, is likewise a gift of God.

¹⁴I know that whatsoever God doth, that will be for ever; to it nothing can be added, and from it there is nothing to be diminished: and God hath so made it, that men should be afraid of him.

¹⁵That which hath been hath long since appeared again; and what is to be hath already been; and God seeketh again that which is sped away.

¹⁶And moreover I have seen under the sun, that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness; and that in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.