Ecclesiastes 3:6

“A time to get, and a time to lose, etc.] To get substance, as the Targum, and to lose it; wealth and riches, honour and glory, wisdom and knowledge: or, “to seek, and to lose”f83; a time when the sheep of the house of Israel, or God’s elect, were lost, and a time to seek them again; which was, lone by Christ in redemption, and by the Spirit of God, in effectual calling; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; to keep a thing, and to cast it away, into the sea, in the time of a great tempest, as the Targum; as did the mariners in the ship in which Jonah was, and those in which the Apostle Paul was, (Jon 1:5 <442738>Acts 27:38); It may be interpreted of keeping riches, and which are sometimes…”

“time to get--for example, to gain honestly a livelihood (Eph 4:23). lose--When God wills losses to us, then is our time to be content. keep--not to give to the idle beggar (Th2 3:10). cast away--in charity (Pro 11:24); or to part with the dearest object, rather than the soul (Mar 9:43). To be careful is right in its place, but not when it comes between us and Jesus Christ (Luk 10:40-42).”

“Get ... lose - Rather, seek, and a time to give up for lost. return to 'Top of Page'”

“To life - When men lose their estates, either by God's providence, or by their own choice. To cast away - When a man casts away his goods voluntarily, as in a storm, to save his life, or out of love and obedience to God. Ecclesiastes 3:7”

“time to get: or, time to seek, Gen 30:30-43, Gen 31:18; Exo 12:35, Exo 12:36; Deu 8:17, Deu 8:18; Kg2 5:26, Kg2 8:9, an a time to lose, Mat 16:25, Mat 16:26, Mat 19:29; Mar 8:35-37, Mar 10:28-30; Luk 9:24, Luk 9:25 and a time to cast: Ecc 11:1; Kg2 7:15; Psa 112:9; Isa 2:20; Jon 1:5; Act 27:19, Act 27:38; Phi 3:7, Phi 3:8; Heb 10:34, Heb 10:35 Ecclesiastes 3:7”

“"To seek has its time, and to lose has its time; to lay up has its time, and to throw away has its time." Vaihinger and others translate לאבּד, to give up as lost, which the Pih. signifies first as the expression of a conscious act. The older language knows it only in the stronger sense of bringing to ruin, making to perish, wasting ( Pro 29:3). But in the more modern language, אבד, like the Lat. perdere, in the sense of "to lose," is the trans. to the intrans. אבד, e.g., Tahoroth; viii. 3, "if one loses (המאבּד) anything," etc.; Sifri, at Deu 24:19, "he who has lost (מאבּד) a shekel," etc. In this sense the Palest.-Aram. uses the Aphel אובד, e.g., Jer. Meza ii. 5, "the queen had lost…”