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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: |
| 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, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, |
| 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 scatter stones and a time to gather them, 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 up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be 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 do workers gain from their toil? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil--this is the gift of God. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment--wickedness was there, in the place of justice--wickedness was there. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I said to myself, "God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I also said to myself, "As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?" |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them? |
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