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Ecclesiastes 3:4 (NIV)
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV)
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
Ecclesiastes 3:2 (NIV)
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
Ecclesiastes 3:3 (NIV)
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
Ecclesiastes 3:5 (NIV)
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
Ecclesiastes 3:6 (NIV)
a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
Ecclesiastes 3:7 (NIV)
a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
Ecclesiastes 3:8 (NIV)
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:9 (NIV)
What do workers gain from their toil?
Ecclesiastes 3:10 (NIV)
I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV)
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.
Ecclesiastes 3:12 (NIV)
I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.
Ecclesiastes 3:13 (NIV)
That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:14 (NIV)
I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.
Ecclesiastes 3:15 (NIV)
Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.
Ecclesiastes 3:16 (NIV)
And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
Ecclesiastes 3:17 (NIV)
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.”
Ecclesiastes 3:18 (NIV)
I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.
Ecclesiastes 3:19 (NIV)
Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath ; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 3:20 (NIV)
All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.
Ecclesiastes 3:21 (NIV)
Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
Ecclesiastes 3:22 (NIV)
So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
Ecclesiastes 4:1 (NIV)
Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:2 (NIV)
And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.
Ecclesiastes 4:3 (NIV)
But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.