Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

The Voice

3 Teacher: For everything that happens in life—there is a season, a right time for everything under heaven:

²    A time to be born, a time to die;
        a time to plant, a time to collect the harvest;
³    A time to kill, a time to heal;
        a time to tear down, a time to build up;
⁴    A time to cry, a time to laugh;
        a time to mourn, a time to dance;
⁵    A time to scatter stones, a time to pile them up;
        a time for a warm embrace, a time for keeping your distance;
⁶    A time to search, a time to give up as lost;
        a time to keep, a time to throw out;
⁷    A time to tear apart, a time to bind together;
        a time to be quiet, a time to speak up;
⁸    A time to love, a time to hate;
        a time to go to war, a time to make peace.