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| [1]TO everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the sun: |
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| [2]A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted; |
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| [3]A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build up; |
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| [4]A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; |
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| [5]A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; |
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| [6]A time to lose and a time to seek; a time to tie up and a time to untie; |
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| [7]A time to rend and a time to sew; a time to keep silent and a time to speak; |
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| [8]A time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace. |
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| [9]What profit has the worker in his labor? |
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| [10]I have seen the toil which the LORD has given to the sons of men to be engaged therewith |
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| [11]He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has made the world dear to man's heart, so that no man can find out the works which the LORD has done from the beginning to the end. |
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| [12]I know that there is no good in worldly things, but for men to rejoice and to do good in their lives. |
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| [13]And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor; it is the gift of the LORD. |
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| [14]I know that whatsoever the LORD does, it shall be for ever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it; and the LORD has so made it that men should reverence him. |
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| [15]That which is now, already has been; and that which is to be, has already been; and God will avenge him who has been persecuted |
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| [16]And moreover, I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. |
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| [17]I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time for every purpose and for every work. |
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| [18]I meditated in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men whom God had created, and saw that they are like beasts. |
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| [19]For the same misfortune which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one misfortune befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man has no preeminence over the beast; for all is vanity. |
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| [20]All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. |
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| [21]Who knows whether the spirit of men goes upward and the spirit of the beasts goes downward under the earth? |
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| [22]Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better in them but that man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him |
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