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A Time to Mourn and a Time to Dance

A Time to Mourn and a Time to Dance



“A time to mourn and a time to dance” (Eccl 3:4). The dancer shown above left is a Greek statuette dating from around 300 B.C. The middle and right photos show two sides of an Attic vase probably dating from about 475 B.C. It is decorated with figures of fourteen mourners—seven men and seven women. In the middle photo the men’s arms are stretched out in front of them. The photo on the right shows the women in mourning beating on their shaven heads.

The NIV translation (“Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”) better renders the thought of Eccl 3:21 than the KJV’s translation.


Dockery, David S. et al. Holman Bible Handbook. Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 1992. Print.
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