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    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 3
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    "n": 3,
    "bookSlug": "ecclesiastes",
    "bookCode": "ECC",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ECC-3:1",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.1",
        "text": "For everything there is a season, and a time for very purpose under heaven:"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ECC-3:2",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.2",
        "text": "a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ECC-3:3",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.3",
        "text": "a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ECC-3:4",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.4",
        "text": "a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ECC-3:5",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.5",
        "text": "a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ECC-3:6",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.6",
        "text": "a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ECC-3:7",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.7",
        "text": "a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ECC-3:8",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.8",
        "text": "a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ECC-3:9",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.9",
        "text": "What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ECC-3:10",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.10",
        "text": "I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ECC-3:11",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.11",
        "text": "He 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."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ECC-3:12",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.12",
        "text": "I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ECC-3:13",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.13",
        "text": "And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ECC-3:14",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.14",
        "text": "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done it, that men should fear before him."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ECC-3:15",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.15",
        "text": "That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "ECC-3:16",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.16",
        "text": "And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "ECC-3:17",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.17",
        "text": "I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "ECC-3:18",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.18",
        "text": "I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are [but as] beasts."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "ECC-3:19",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.19",
        "text": "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "ECC-3:20",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.20",
        "text": "All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "ECC-3:21",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.21",
        "text": "Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "ECC-3:22",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.3.22",
        "text": "Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?"
      }
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