'Appropriate' in the Bible
For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:
He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but man cannot discover the work God has done from beginning to end.
I thought to myself, "God will judge both the righteous and the wicked; for there is an appropriate time for every activity, and there is a time of judgment for every deed.
Here is what I have seen to be good: it is appropriate to eat, drink, and experience good in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of his life God has given him, because that is his reward.
Whoever obeys his commands will not experience harm, and the wise in heart will discern both the appropriate time and response.
Indeed, there is an appropriate time and a response for every circumstance, since human misery weighs heavily upon him.
Blessed are you, O land, whose king is of nobility and whose princes eat at the appropriate time—for strength and not for drunkenness.
The Teacher searched to find appropriate expressions, and what is written here is right and truthful.
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