Ecclesiastes 3:7
Verse 7 of 22. The 3rd of 12 chapters in Ecclesiastes, in Poetry and Wisdom.
3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Ecclesiastes 3:7 in the World English Bible
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;Read Ecclesiastes 3:7 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:7
The scope of these verses is to show, 1. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur promiscuously, and we are continually passing and repassing between them, as in the revolutions of every day and every year.
Read Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:1–10: Mutability of Human Affairs.
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