Quotes about Time
even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?
- Ecclesiastes 6:6
Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.
- Ecclesiastes 6:10
Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is unwise of you to ask about this.
- Ecclesiastes 7:10
Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
- Ecclesiastes 7:17
For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
- Ecclesiastes 8:6
All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.
- Ecclesiastes 8:9
I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
- Ecclesiastes 9:11
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12
Blessed are you, O land whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.
- Ecclesiastes 10:17
Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
- Ecclesiastes 11:6
So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 11:8
before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
- Ecclesiastes 12:2