engLXXup: Ecclesiastes 3

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[1] To all things there is a time,

And a season for every matter under heaven.

[2] A time of birth, and a time to die;

A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted;

[3] A time to kill, and a time to heal;

A time to pull down, and a time to build up;

[4] A time to weep, and a time to laugh;

A time to lament, and a time to dance;

[5] A time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones together;

A time to embrace, and a time to abstain from embracing;

[6] A time to seek, and a time to lose;

A time to keep, and a time to cast away;

[7] A time to rend, and a time to sew;

A time to be silent, and a time to speak;

[8] A time to love, and a time to hate;

A time of war, and a time of peace.

[9] What advantage has he that works in those things wherein he labors?

[10] I have seen all the trouble,

Which God has given to the sons of men to be troubled with.

[11] All the things which he has made are beautiful in his time:

He has also set the whole world in their heart,

That man might not find out

The work which God has wrought from the beginning even to the end.

[12] I know that there is no good in them,

Except for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

[13] Also in the case of every man who shall eat and drink,

And see good in all his labor,

This is a gift of God.

[14] I know that whatsoever things God has done,

They shall be forever:

It is impossible to add to it,

And it is impossible to take away from it:

And God has done it, that men may fear before him.

[15] That which has been is now;

And whatever things are appointed to be have already been;

And God will seek out that which is past.

[16] And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment,

There was the ungodly one;

And the place of righteousness,

There was the godly one.

[17] And I said in my heart,

God will judge the righteous and the ungodly:

For there is a time there for every action

And for every work.

[18] I said in my heart,

Concerning the speech of the sons of man,

God will judge them,

And that to show that they are beasts.

[19] Also to them is the event of the sons of man,

And the event of the brute;

One event befalls them:

As is the death of the one, so also the death of the other;

And there is one breath to all:

And what has the man more than the brute?

Nothing; for all is vanity.

[20] All go to one place;

All were formed of the dust,

And all will return to dust.

[21] And who has seen the spirit of the sons of man,

Whether it goes upward?

And the spirit of the beast,

Whether it goes downward to the earth?

[22] And I saw that there was no good,

But that wherein a man shall rejoice in his works,

For it is his portion,

For who shall bring him to see anything of that which shall be after him?

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