There Is A Time for Everything

Ecclesiastes 3 (New International Version)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=25&chapter=3

1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

¹⁵ Whatever is has already been,
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.^a]">[a]

¹⁸ I also thought, "As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. ¹⁹ Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath ^b]">[b] ; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. ²⁰ All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. ²¹ Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal ^c]">[c] goes down into the earth?"

Footnotes:

1. Ecclesiastes 3:15 Or God calls back the past
2. Ecclesiastes 3:19 Or spirit
3. Ecclesiastes 3:21 Or Who knows the spirit of man, which rises upward, or the spirit of the animal, which