Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, 4, 7-8, 16-21
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 NCV
There is a time for everything, and everything on earth has its special season. There is a time to be born and a time to die. There is a time to plant and a time to pull up plants.
Ecclesiastes 3:4 NCV
There is a time to cry and a time to laugh. There is a time to be sad and a time to dance.
Ecclesiastes 3:7-8 NCV
There is a time to tear apart and a time to sew together. There is a time to be silent and a time to speak. There is a time to love and a time to hate. There is a time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:16-21 NCV
I also saw this here on earth: Where there should have been justice, there was evil; where there should have been right, there was wrong. I said to myself, God has planned a time for every thing and every action, so he will judge both good people and bad. I decided that God leaves it the way it is to test people and to show them they are just like animals. The same thing happens to animals and to people; they both have the same breath, so they both die. People are no better off than the animals, because everything is useless. Both end up the same way; both came from dust and both will go back to dust. Who can be sure that the human spirit goes up to God and that the spirit of an animal goes down into the ground?






