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Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
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A Time for Everything
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
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a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
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a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
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a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
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a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
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a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
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a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
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a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
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He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
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I said to myself, “God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.”
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What advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
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When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.
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Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool— why die before your time?
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for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.
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Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm, and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
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For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person may be weighed down by misery.
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As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
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All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own hurt.
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Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
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I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
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Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.
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Blessed is the land whose king is of noble birth and whose princes eat at a proper time— for strength and not for drunkenness.