“a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 3 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.