Bible Verse of the Day: Scripture quotes to inspire your faith in God today.

a time to seek and a time to lose;

a time to keep and a time to throw away;

a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones together;

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;

a time to weep and a time to laugh;

a time to mourn and a time to dance;

a time to kill and a time to heal;

a time to break down and a time to build up;

a time to be born and a time to die;

a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted;

For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven:

So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly, for what can the king’s successor do? Only what has already been done. Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.

The wise have eyes in their head,

but fools walk in darkness.

So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure from all my toil, and this was my reward from all my toil. Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and again, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

I said to myself, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.” And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a chasing after wind.

For in much wisdom is much vexation,

and those who increase knowledge increase sorrow.

I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to humans to be busy with. I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun, and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

What is crooked cannot be made straight,

and what is lacking cannot be counted.