'To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven': birth and death, planting and plucking, weeping and laughing, war and peace: fourteen pairs.

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'To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven': birth and death, planting and plucking, weeping and laughing, war and peace: fourteen pairs. 'He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done.' Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever. As for the sons of men, they and the beasts share one breath and one dust (the honest limit of what is seen 'under the sun') therefore rejoice in thy works, for that is thy portion.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary and John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament.

Context

Poetry · Solomon — Ecclesiastes overview

A. 1–8 To Everything There Is a Season
B. 9–15 He Hath Set Eternity in Their Heart
C. 16–22 Man and Beast Go Unto One Place

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Ecclesiastes 33 verses
- Ecclesiastes 3:11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
- Ecclesiastes 3:17I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
- Ecclesiastes 3:22I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
- Read Ecclesiastes 3 →
Ecclesiastes 13 verses
- Ecclesiastes 1:3What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 1:9What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 1:13And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
- Read Ecclesiastes 1 →
Ecclesiastes 122 verses
- Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
- Read Ecclesiastes 12 →
Psalms 492 verses
- Psalms 49:12But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
- Psalms 49:20A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
- Read Psalms 49 →

4 more chapters this one speaks with

Matthew 162 verses
- Matthew 16:3and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.
- Matthew 16:27For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
- Read Matthew 16 →
Ecclesiastes 82 verses
- Ecclesiastes 8:5Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.
- Ecclesiastes 8:7Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
- Read Ecclesiastes 8 →
Job 142 verses
- Job 14:5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
- Read Job 14 →
Ephesians 52 verses
- Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
- Ephesians 5:28In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- Read Ephesians 5 →

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.