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Ecclésiaste 3:6

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6 un temps pour chercher, et un temps pour perdre; un temps pour garder, et un temps pour jeter;

Ecclésiaste 3:6 Meaning and Commentary

Ecclesiastes 3:6

A time to get, and a time to lose
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" F9; 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, ( Jonah 1:5 ) ( Acts 27:38 ) ; It may be interpreted of keeping riches, and which are sometimes kept too close, and to the harm of the owners of them; and of scattering them among the poor, or casting them upon the waters; see ( Ecclesiastes 5:13 ) ( 11:1 ) ( Proverbs 11:24 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F9 (vqbl te) "tempus quaerendi", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Piscator, Mercerus, Gejerus, Rambachius.
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Ecclésiaste 3:6 In-Context

4 un temps pour pleurer, et un temps pour rire; un temps pour se lamenter, et un temps pour danser;
5 un temps pour lancer des pierres, et un temps pour ramasser des pierres; un temps pour embrasser, et un temps pour s'éloigner des embrassements;
6 un temps pour chercher, et un temps pour perdre; un temps pour garder, et un temps pour jeter;
7 un temps pour déchirer, et un temps pour coudre; un temps pour se taire, et un temps pour parler;
8 un temps pour aimer, et un temps pour haïr; un temps pour la guerre, et un temps pour la paix.
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