Ecclesiastes 3:4
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
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Gill's Exposition
A time to weep, and a time to laugh,.... There is a time for these things, as it goes ill or well with persons, as to their health, estate, or friends; and as it goes ill or well with kingdoms and…
The scope of these verses is to show, 1. That we live in a world of changes, that the several events of time, and conditions of human life, are vastly different from one another, and yet occur…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
a time to weep The two couples are naturally grouped together, the first taking in the natural spontaneous expression of individual feeling, the second the more formal manifestation of the feelings in…
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