Ecclesiastes 3:1-11

Leeser(i) 1 For every thing there is a season; and a proper time is for every pursuit under the heavens. 2 There is a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what hath been planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather up stones; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embracing; 6 A time to seek, and a time to let things be lost; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. 9 What profit hath now he that worketh in that wherein he toileth? 10 I have seen the employment, which God hath given to the sons of men to busy themselves therewith. 11 Every 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.