Ecclesiastes 3

1 Everything has its own time—a time for all that happens here:*3:1. This is the Teachers observation, not his instruction. For this reason the verb participle is used, rather than the infinitive, since the infinitive might suggest that this is what should happen, e.g. "a time of killing" (i.e. when it happens) rather than "a time to kill" (when it ought to happen).