For, every thing, there is a season, - and a time for every pursuit, under the heavens: -

A time to be born, and a time to die, - A time to plant, and a time to uproot what 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 wail, and a time to dance for joy;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to heap up stones, - A time to embrace, and a time to be far from loving embrace;

A time to seek, and a time to give up as lost, - A time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew, - A time to be silent, and a time to speak;

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

Everything, hath he made beautiful in its own time, - also, intelligence, hath he put in their heart, without which men could not find out the work which God hath wrought, from the beginning even unto the end.

Said, I, in my heart, Both the righteous and the lawless, will God judge, - for there will be a time for every pursuit, and concerning every work - there.

Do not be so very lawless, neither become thou foolish, - wherefore shouldst thou die, before thy time?

He that observeth the commandment, will not notice a vexatious thing, - and, of time and manner, will the heart of the wise take note.

For, to every pursuit, there is a time and a manner, - when, the vexation of man, is great concerning it.

All this, had I seen, and tried to apply my heart to every work which was done under the sun, - at such time as one man had power over another man, to his hurt.

I again saw under the sun, that not, to the swift, was the race, nor, to the strong, the battle, nay! nor, to the wise, food, nor yet, to the intelligent, riches, nor, even to the well-informed, comeliness, - for, time and accident, happened to them all.

For, indeed, man could not know his own time, like fishes which were caught in a cruel net, and like little birds which were caught in a trap, - like them, were ensnared the sons of men, by a time of misfortune, when it fell upon them suddenly.