There is a time for everything,
 and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die,
   

a time to plant and a time to uproot,


a time to kill and a time to heal,


a time to tear down and a time to build,


a time to weep and a time to laugh,


ime to mourn and a time to dance,


a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

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


a time to search and a time to give up,


a time to keep and a time to throw away,


a time to tear and a time to mend,


a time to be silent and a time to speak,


a time to love and a time to hate,


a time for war and a time for peace.

What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.