For everything there is a season, and a time for very purpose under heaven:

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 tear, 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 for war, and a time for peace.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

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

Do not much wrong, nor be thou a fool. Why should thou die before thy time?

He who keeps a commandment shall know no evil thing. And a wise man's heart discerns the time and decision.

For to every purpose there is a time and decision, although the distress of man is great upon him.

All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. [There is] a time in which one man has power over another 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 men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happens t

For man also does not know his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.