So I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, to apply my mind unto wisdom, and to comprehend foolishness until the time that among all the things which are under the Sun, I might see what were best for men to do, so long as they live under heaven.

Every thing hath a time; yea, all that is under the heaven, hath his convenient season.

There is a time to be born, and a time to die. There is a time to plant, and a time to pluck up the thing, that is planted;

A time to slay, and a time to make whole; 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 win, and a time to lose; A time to spare, and a time to spend;

A time to cut in pieces, and a time to sew together; 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.

All this hath he ordained marvelous goodly, to every thing his due time. He hath planted ignorance also in the hearts of men, that they should not find out the ground of his works, which he doth from the beginning to the end.

The thing that hath been, is now; and the thing that is for to come, hath been afore time: for God restoreth again the thing that was past.

Then thought I in my mind, "God shall separate the righteous from the ungodly, and then shall be the time and judgment of all counsels and works."

A poor child being wise, is better than an old king that doteth, and cannot beware in time to come.

Say not thou, "What is the cause that the days of the old time were better than they that be now?" For that were no wise question.

Use well the time of prosperity and remember the time of misfortune: For God maketh one by the other, so that a man can find nothing else.

These two things also have I considered in the time of vanity: that the just man perisheth for his righteousness' sake, and the ungodly liveth in his wickedness.

be neither too unrighteous also nor too foolish, lest thou die before thy time.

Whoso keepeth the commandment, shall feel no harm: but a wise man's heart discerneth time and manner.

Neither is there any man that hath power over the spirit, to keep still the spirit, nor to have any power in the time of death: it is not he also that can make an end of the battle, neither may ungodliness deliver him that meddleth withall.

So I turned me unto other things under the Sun, and I saw that in running it helpeth not to be swift; in battle it helpeth not to be strong; to feeding it helpeth not to be wise; to riches, it helpeth not to be suttle; to be had in favour, it helpeth not to be cunning: but that all lieth in time and fortune.

For man knoweth not his time, but like as the fish are taken with the angle and as the birds are caught with the snare: Even so are men taken in the perilous time, when it cometh suddenly upon them.