A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
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Gill's Exposition
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" (i); a time when the sheep…
Barnes' Notes
Get ... lose - Rather, seek, and a time to give up for lost.
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…
Cambridge Bible
A time to get, and a time to lose The getting or the losing refer primarily, we can scarcely doubt, to what we call property. There are times when it is better and wiser to risk the loss of all we…
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