Ecclesiastes — Chapter 3
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Verse 7
A time torent, and atime to fow together, Atime to keepe filence , & atimeto fpeake.
Verse 8
Atime of loue, and atime of hatred, A timeof warre,anda time.of peace, 9,(b)What hath man more ot his jabour? y0,] haue feenthe affi- dion , which God hath giuentothe childrenof men, that thy may be diftracted init, 11, He hath made al things cood in their time, and hath e L things haue atime, andintheir Spaces al things paffe Yi A time to delivered rhe world to their difputation, aud thar man cannot finde th: worke, which Ged hath wrought from the beginning vato the enc, 12.And --- PAGE 1344 --- q ae ECCLESTIASTES. 77 12, And I haue knowne that there was no betterthing then to retoyce, petual, burr and to doe wel in his life.13.For euerie man, that eateth and drinketh,and >¢ Ved inter~ is lab his isthe guitt of God, 14, I hauedearned thar [ch2"gc2bly, in feeth good of his labour , this g od, 14, I hauedlearn duc rime, pla- _althe workes, which God hath made , perfeuer for euer: we canno: adde aniething , nor take away from thofe things , which God hath made that he may be feared, 15. That which hath been made,the fame is permanent : thethings that shal be, haue already been: and God re- ftoreth thar whichis paft, 16. I faw wnderthe funne inthe place of iudge- ment impietie , and in the place of iuftice iniquitie, 17, And I fayd in my hart: the iuft and the impious God wiliudge, and then {hal be the ‘ce,Manner,and order. For dif-- order maketh time of eueriething. 18, I fayd in my hart of the children of men, that God would proue them , and fhewthem to be like beafts. 19. Therfore there is one Neath of man, and beafts, and the condition of bothrequa!: as man dieth, fo they alfo dye: al things breath alike , and man hath no- thing more then beaft : al things are fubieCt to vanirie, 20, and al things paffe toone place :.of earth they were made, and into earth they returne together, 21, Who knoweth if the fpirit of the children of Adam afcend vpward, and if the fpirite of beafts d.{cend downward? 22, AndI haue found that nothing is becterthen for a manto reioyce in his worke , and that this is his portion, For who fhal bring him to know the things that fal be after him? Cuar. IIT, In this world wsanie snnocents are oppreffed , 4. the potent fometimes enuied, contemned, 15,.and forfoken by sheir fubsecls,17. efpectally when she fuperiours obey not God. Turned my felf to other things, and I faw the oppreffions, that are done vnder the funne,and the (4)teares of the innocents, and no comforter : & that they can not refift their violence, being defti- tute of al mens helpe, 2. And I praifed rather the dead, then the liuing; 3, and happier thenboth ~ hauel indged him thar1s not ( b) yet borne, nor hath feen the euilsthat aredone vnder the funne: