Ecclesiastes 3:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing.

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  • 2 Kgs 3:25 : 25 and the cities they break down, and `on' every good portion they cast each his stone, and have filled it, and every fountain of water they stop, and every good tree they cause to fall -- till one had left its stones in Kir-Haraseth, and the slingers go round and smite it.
  • Joel 2:16 : 16 Gather the people, sanctify an assembly, Assemble the aged, Gather infants and sucklings of the breasts, Go out let a bridegroom from his inner chamber, And a bride out of her closet.
  • 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;
  • Song 2:6-7 : 6 His left hand `is' under my head, And his right doth embrace me. 7 I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!
  • Exod 19:15 : 15 and he saith unto the people, `Be ye prepared for the third day, come not nigh unto a woman.'
  • Josh 4:3-9 : 3 and command ye them, saying, Take up for you from this `place', from the midst of the Jordan, from the established standing-place of the feet of the priests, twelve stones, and ye have removed them over with you, and placed them in the lodging-place in which ye lodge to-night.' 4 And Joshua calleth unto the twelve men whom he prepared out of the sons of Israel, one man -- one man out of a tribe; 5 and Joshua saith to them, `Pass over before the ark of Jehovah your God unto the midst of the Jordan and lift up for you each, one stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, 6 so that this is a sign in your midst, when your children ask hereafter, saying, What `are' these stones to you? 7 that ye have said to them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off, at the presence of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; in its passing over into the Jordan were the waters of the Jordan cut off; and these stones have been for a memorial to the sons of Israel -- to the age.' 8 And the sons of Israel do so as Joshua commanded, and take up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah hath spoken unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, and remove them over with them unto the lodging-place, and place them there, 9 even the twelve stones hath Joshua raised up out of the midst of the Jordan, the place of the standing of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant, and they are there unto this day.
  • Josh 10:27 : 27 And it cometh to pass, at the time of the going in of the sun, Joshua hath commanded, and they take them down from off the trees, and cast them unto the cave where they had been hid, and put great stones on the mouth of the cave till this very day.
  • 1 Sam 21:4-5 : 4 And the priest answereth David, and saith, `There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if the youths have been kept only from women.' 5 And David answereth the priest, and saith to him, `Surely, if women have been restrained from us as heretofore in my going out, then the vessels of the young men are holy, and it `is' a common way: and also, surely to-day it is sanctified in the vessel.'
  • 2 Sam 18:17-18 : 17 and they take Absalom and cast him in the forest unto the great pit, and set up over him a very great heap of stones, and all Israel have fled -- each to his tent. 18 And Absalom hath taken, and setteth up for himself in his life, the standing-pillar that `is' in the king's valley, for he said, `I have no son to cause my name to be remembered;' and he calleth the standing-pillar by his own name, and it is called `The monument of Absalom' unto this day.

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    6A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.

    7A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.

    8A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.

    9What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

    10I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

    11The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

    12I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

  • Eccl 3:1-4
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    1To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

    2A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.

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    2Better to go unto a house of mourning, Than to go unto a house of banqueting, For that is the end of all men, And the living layeth `it' unto his heart.

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    14In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

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    9The two `are' better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

    10For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

    11Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat?

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    22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

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    10All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

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    12For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these `are' the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

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    20The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

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    1But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

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    5Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.

  • Amos 5:13
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    13Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it `is'.

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    22Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.

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    1I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.

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    9be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

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    6While that the silver cord is not removed, And the golden bowl broken, And the pitcher broken by the fountain, And the wheel broken at the well.

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    4And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

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    15And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.

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    11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

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    11For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.

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    9What `is' that which hath been? it `is' that which is, and what `is' that which hath been done? it `is' that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.

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    14With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.

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    24There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it `is' from the hand of God.

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    20Whoso is taking away a garment in a cold day, `Is as' vinegar on nitre, And a singer of songs on a sad heart.

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    8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.