{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Ecclesiastes",
 "chapter": 3,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;"
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;"
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "He 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?"
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?"
  }
 ],
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 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}