Ecclesiastes 3:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Matt 16:25-26 : 25 for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it, 26 for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
  • Mark 8:35-37 : 35 for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it; 36 for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? 37 Or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
  • Luke 9:24-25 : 24 for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake, he shall save it; 25 for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?
  • Phil 3:7-8 : 7 But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss; 8 yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
  • Heb 10:34-35 : 34 for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one. 35 Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,
  • Acts 27:19 : 19 and on the third `day' with our own hands the tackling of the ship we cast out,
  • Mark 10:28-30 : 28 And Peter began to say to him, `Lo, we left all, and we followed thee.' 29 And Jesus answering said, `Verily I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my sake, and for the good news', 30 who may not receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, life age-during;
  • Matt 19:29 : 29 and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;
  • Gen 30:30-43 : 30 for `it is' little which thou hast had at my appearance, and it breaketh forth into a multitude, and Jehovah blesseth thee at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for mine own house?' 31 And he saith, `What do I give to thee?' And Jacob saith, `Thou dost not give me anything; if thou do for me this thing, I turn back; I have delight; thy flock I watch; 32 I pass through all thy flock to-day to turn aside from thence every sheep speckled and spotted, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats -- and it hath been my hire; 33 and my righteousness hath answered for me in the day to come, when it cometh in for my hire before thy face; -- every one which is not speckled and spotted among `my' goats, and brown among `my' lambs -- it is stolen with me.' 34 And Laban saith, `Lo, O that it were according to thy word;' 35 and he turneth aside during that day the ring-straked and the spotted he-goats, and all the speckled and the spotted she-goats, every one that `hath' white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he giveth into the hand of his sons, 36 and setteth a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban. 37 And Jacob taketh to himself a rod of fresh poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut, and doth peel in them white peelings, making bare the white that `is' on the rods, 38 and setteth up the rods which he hath peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (when the flock cometh in to drink), over-against the flock, that they may conceive in their coming in to drink; 39 and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock beareth ring-straked, speckled, and spotted ones. 40 And the lambs hath Jacob parted, and he putteth the face of the flock towards the ring-straked, also all the brown in the flock of Laban, and he setteth his own droves by themselves, and hath not set them near Laban's flock. 41 And it hath come to pass whenever the strong ones of the flock conceive, that Jacob set the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, to cause them to conceive by the rods, 42 and when the flock is feeble, he doth not set `them'; and the feeble ones have been Laban's, and the strong ones Jacob's. 43 And the man increaseth very exceedingly, and hath many flocks, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses.
  • Gen 31:18 : 18 and leadeth all his cattle, and all his substance which he hath acquired, the cattle of his getting, which he hath acquired in Padan-Aram, to go unto Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
  • Exod 12:35-36 : 35 And the sons of Israel have done according to the word of Moses, and they ask from the Egyptians vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and garments; 36 and Jehovah hath given the grace of the people in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they cause them to ask, and they spoil the Egyptians.
  • Deut 8:17-18 : 17 and thou hast said in thy heart, My power, and the might of my hand, hath made for me this wealth: 18 `And thou hast remembered Jehovah thy God, for He it `is' who is giving to thee power to make wealth, in order to establish His covenant which He hath sworn to thy fathers as `at' this day.
  • 2 Kgs 5:26 : 26 And he saith unto him, `My heart went not when the man turned from off his chariot to meet thee; is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olives, and vines, and flock, and herd, and men-servants, and maid-servants?
  • 2 Kgs 7:15 : 15 And they go after them unto the Jordan, and lo, all the way is full of garments and vessels that the Aramaeans have cast away in their haste, and the messengers turn back and declare to the king.
  • 2 Kgs 8:9 : 9 And Hazael goeth to meet him, and taketh a present in his hand, even of every good thing of Damascus, a burden of forty camels, and he cometh in and standeth before him, and saith, `Thy son Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, hath sent me unto thee, saying, Do I revive from this sickness?'
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He hath scattered -- hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.
  • Eccl 11:1 : 1 Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.
  • Isa 2:20 : 20 In that day doth man cast his idols of silver, And his idols of gold, That they have made for him to worship, To moles, and to bats,
  • Jonah 1:5 : 5 and the mariners are afraid, and cry each unto his god, and cast the goods that `are' in the ship into the sea, to make `it' light of them; and Jonah hath gone down unto the sides of the vessel, and he lieth down, and is fast asleep.
  • Acts 27:38 : 38 and having eaten sufficient nourishment, they were lightening the ship, casting forth the wheat into the sea.

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

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    4A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.

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  • Eccl 3:7-12
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    8A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.

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    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 8:5-6
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    5Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth.

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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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    15What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which `is' to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

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  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

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    3What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

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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.

    7And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

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

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    26For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 9:1
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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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  • Eccl 11:1
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    1Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.

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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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    20And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

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    16redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

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