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A time to seek, And a time to lose; A time to keep, And a time to cast away;
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Seek and Let Go
Commentators clarify that the Hebrew is better translated as "a time to seek, and a time to give up for lost." This emphasizes an active choice rather than a passive experience. Wisdom involves not only knowing when to pursue something but also when to recognize that it is gone and to let it go.
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Ecclesiastes
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Get ... lose — Rather, seek, and a time to give up for lost.
19th Century
Anglican
To lose.— Elsewhere this word means to destroy, but in later Hebrew it comes to mean to lose, like the Latin “perdere.”
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
A time to get, and a time to lose To get substance, as the Targum, and to lose it; wealth and riches, honour and glo…
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