ECCLESIASTES Chapter 3 (GNB)
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3:1 Everything
that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses. |
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3:2 He sets the
time for birth and the time for death, the time for planting and the time for
pulling up, |
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3:3 the time for
killing and the time for healing, the time for tearing down and the time for
building. |
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3:4 He sets the
time for sorrow and the time for joy, the time for mourning and the time for
dancing, |
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3:5 the time for
making love and the time for not making love, the time for kissing and the
time for not kissing. |
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3:6 He sets the
time for finding and the time for losing, the time for saving and the time
for throwing away, |
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3:7 the time for
tearing and the time for mending, the time for silence and the time for talk.
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3:8 He sets the
time for love and the time for hate, the time for war and the time for peace.
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3:9 What do we
gain from all our work? |
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3:10 I know the
heavy burdens that God has laid on us. |
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3:11 He has set the
right time for everything. He has given us a desire to know the future, but
never gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding what he does. |
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3:12 So I realized
that all we can do is be happy and do the best we can while we are still
alive. |
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3:13 All of us
should eat and drink and enjoy what we have worked for. It is God's gift. |
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3:14 I know that
everything God does will last forever. You can't add anything to it or take
anything away from it. And one thing God does is to make us stand in awe of
him. |
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3:15 Whatever
happens or can happen has already happened before. God makes the same thing
happen again and again. |
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3:16 In addition, I
have also noticed that in this world you find wickedness where justice and
right ought to be. |
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3:17 I told myself,
"God is going to judge the righteous and the evil alike, because every thing, every action, will happen at its own set
time." |
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3:18 I decided that
God is testing us, to show us that we are no better than animals. |
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3:19 After all, the
same fate awaits human beings and animals alike. One dies just like the
other. They are the same kind of creature. A human being is no better off
than an animal, because life has no meaning for either. |
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3:20 They are both
going to the same place---the dust. They both came from it; they will both go
back to it. |
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3:21 How can anyone
be sure that the human spirit goes upward while an animal's spirit goes down
into the ground? |
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3:22 So I realized
then that the best thing we can do is enjoy what we have worked for. There is
nothing else we can do. There is no way for us to know what will happen after
we die. |
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