For there is a time and a way (A)for everything, although man's trouble[a] lies heavy on him.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:6 Or evil

A Time for Everything

For everything there is a season, and (A)a time for every matter under heaven:

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17 I said in my heart, (A)God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is (B)a time for every matter and for every work.

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42 saying, (A)“Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now (B)they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For (C)the days will come upon you, when your enemies (D)will set up a barricade around you and (E)surround you and hem you in on every side 44 (F)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And (G)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know (H)the time of your (I)visitation.”

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26 (A)Just as it was in the days of (B)Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 (C)They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of (D)Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 (E)but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— 30 so will it be (F)on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

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11 (A)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
    for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
12 My people—(B)infants are their oppressors,
    and women rule over them.
O my people, (C)your guides mislead you
    and they have swallowed up[a] the course of your paths.

13 The Lord (D)has taken his place to contend;
    he stands to judge peoples.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment
    with the (E)elders and princes of his people:
“It is you who (F)have devoured[b] the vineyard,
    (G)the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:12 Or they have confused
  2. Isaiah 3:14 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5

13 Consider (A)the work of God:
    (B)who can make straight what he has made crooked?

14 (C)In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, (D)so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

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11 He has (A)made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot (B)find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

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A Rest for the People of God

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

(A)“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
    on the day of testing in the wilderness,
where your fathers put me to the test
    and saw my works for (B)forty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
    they have not known my ways.’
11 (C)As I swore in my wrath,
    ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

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25 (A)When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, (B)‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, (C)‘I do not know where you come from.’

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12 In that day (A)the Lord God of hosts
    called for weeping and mourning,
    for (B)baldness and (C)wearing sackcloth;
13 and behold, joy and gladness,
    killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
    eating flesh and drinking wine.
(D)“Let us eat and drink,
    for tomorrow we die.”
14 The Lord of hosts (E)has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely (F)this iniquity will not be atoned for you (G)until you die,”
    says the Lord God of hosts.

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(A)Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. (B)Walk in the ways of your heart and (C)the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things (D)God will bring you into judgment.

10 Remove vexation from your heart, and (E)put away pain[a] from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Remember Your Creator in Your Youth

12 Remember also your Creator in (F)the days of your youth, before (G)the evil days come and the years draw near of which (H)you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:10 Or evil

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