Ecclesiastes 3:8

Old Testament Wisdom/Poetry ASV (1901)

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

Ecclesiastes 3:8 — American Standard Version

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Context — Ecclesiastes 3

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.

5a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

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

9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

10I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

11He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

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