Sunday, December 22, 2019

FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END
Ecclesiastes Qoh.3 [1] For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:  [2] a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; [3] a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; [4] a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; [5] a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain 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 keep silence, and a time to speak; [8] a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. [9] What gain has the worker from his toil? [10]  I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.  [11] He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.  [12] I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;  [13] also that it is God's gift to man that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.  [14] I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him.  [15] That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

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