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A Time for Everything
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
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a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
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a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
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a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
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a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
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a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
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a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
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He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
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I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.
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Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
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Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.
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For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him.
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Wisdom Better Than Folly
Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.
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For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
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Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!