Every Undertaking Has Its Hour

Alles hat seine Zeit. Everything has its time. Germans use the phrase in everyday speech. It comes from Ecclesiastes 3 in the Luther Bible: Ein jegliches hat seine Zeit, und alles Vorhaben unter dem Himmel hat seine Stunde. Everything has its time, and every undertaking under heaven has its hour.

The passage continues with pairs: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant, a time to be silent and a time to speak.

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