To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens:

A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

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

A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.

He hath made everything beautiful in its time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work that God doeth.

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man's heart knoweth time and manner.

For to every purpose there is time and manner. For the misery of man is great upon him;

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when man ruleth man to his hurt.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.