Ecclesiastes 3:6-18

⁶Time to get, and time to lose; time to keep, and time to cast away.

⁷Time to cut, and time to sew together; time to be still, and time to speak.

⁸Time to love, and time of hatred; time of battle, and time of peace.

⁹What hath a man more of his travail?

¹⁰I saw the torment, which God gave to the sons of men, that they be occupied therein.

¹¹God made all things good in their time, and gave the world to disputing of them, that a man find not the work that God hath wrought from the beginning unto the end.

¹²And I knew that nothing was better to a man, but to be glad, and to do good works in his life.

¹³For why each man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his travail; this is the gift of God.

¹⁴I have learned that all the works, that God made, last steadfastly unto without end; we may not add anything to those works, neither take away from those things, which God made, that he be dreaded.

¹⁵That thing that is made, dwelleth perfectly; those things that shall come, were before; and God restoreth that, that is gone.

¹⁶I saw under the sun unfaithfulness in the place of doom; and wickedness in the place of rightfulness.

¹⁷And I said in mine heart, The Lord shall deem a just or rightwise man, and an unfaithful man; and the time of each thing shall be then.

¹⁸I said in mine heart of the sons of men, that God should prove them, and show that they be like beasts.