Ecclesiastes 3:5
A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
6A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
Cross References
Joshua 4:3And command them to take out of the midst of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which you shall set in the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your tents this night.
1 Samuel 21:4And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?
2 Kings 3:25And they destroyed the cities: and they filled every goodly field, every man casting his stone: and they stopt up all the springs of waters: and cut down all the trees that bore fruit, so that brick walls only remained: and the city was beset by the slingers, and a great part thereof destroyed.
Joel 2:16Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of her bride chamber.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:2-11
Mutability of Human Affairs. 1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get,… Read the whole commentary →