Ecclesiastes 3:1–13

¹To everything—a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens: ²A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted. ³A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up. ⁴A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip. ⁵A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing. ⁶A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away. ⁷A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak. ⁸A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace. ⁹What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at? ¹⁰I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

¹¹The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end. ¹²I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life, ¹³yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it is a gift of God.