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Chapter 3

No One Can Determine the Right Time to Act

[a]There is an appointed time for everything,
    and a time for every affair under the heavens.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:1–8 The fourteen pairs of opposites describe various human activities. The poem affirms that God has determined the appropriate moment or “time” for each. Human beings cannot know that moment; further, the wider course of events and purposes fixed by God are beyond them as well.