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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot what was planted; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6A time to search, and a time to give something up as lost; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7A time to rip, and a time to sew; a time to keep silent, and a time to speak. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9What benefit can a worker gain from his toil? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I have observed the burden that God has given to people to keep them occupied. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I have concluded that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to enjoy themselves as long as they live, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13and also that everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil, for these things are a gift from God. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I also know that whatever God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it. God has made it this way, so that men will fear him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I saw something else on earth: In the place of justice, there was wickedness, and in the place of fairness, there was wickedness. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I thought to myself, "God will judge both the righteous and the wicked; for there is an appropriate time for every activity, and there is a time of judgment for every deed. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I also thought to myself, "It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal's spirit descends into the earth? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22So I perceived there is nothing better than for people to enjoy their work, because that is their reward; for who can show them what the future holds? |
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