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Ecclesiastes observes the rhythms and repetitions of the world—generations passing, patterns in nature, and seasons of human life. Time brings both order and limitation: there is a fitting moment for many actions, yet people cannot master the whole.
Creation’s steady cycles underscore human finitude.
4One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
5The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
6The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.
7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
9That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
11There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.
3If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; And if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, In the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
5As you don`t know what is the way of the wind, Nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; Even so you don`t know the work of God who does all.
11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can`t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
14I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.
15That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.
1For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
2A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up;
4A time to weep, And a time to laugh; A time to mourn, And a time to dance;
5A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
6A time to seek, And a time to lose; A time to keep, And a time to cast away;
7A time to tear, And a time to sew; A time to keep silence, And a time to speak;
8A time to love, And a time to hate; A time for war, And a time for peace.