7. A time to rip, and a time to sew;a time to keep silent, and a time to speak.
8. A time to love, and a time to hate;a time for war, and a time for peace.
9. What benefit can a worker gain from his toil?
10. I have observed the burdenthat God has given to people to keep them occupied.
11. God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time,but he has also placed ignorance in the human heartso that people cannot discover what God has ordained,from the beginning to the end of their lives.
12. I have concluded that there is nothing better for peoplethan to be happy and to enjoy themselves as long as they live,
13. and also that everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil,for these things are a gift from God.
14. I also know that whatever God does will endure forever;nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it.God has made it this way, so that men will fear him.
15. Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been;for God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past.
16. I saw something else on earth:In the place of justice, there was wickedness,and in the place of fairness, there was wickedness.
17. I thought to myself, “God will judge both the righteous and the wicked;for there is an appropriate time for every activity,and there is a time of judgment for every deed.
18. I also thought to myself, “It is for the sake of people,so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.