Ecclesiastes 3:8
a time to love and a time to hate,
What it says
There is a time to love and to hate, for war and for peace.
What it is doing
This verse closes the poem with its broadest social opposites.
In context
1To everything there is a season, 2a time to be born and a time to die, 3a time to kill and a time to heal, 4a time to weep and a time to laugh, 5a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, 6a time to search and a time to count as lost, 7a time to tear and a time to mend, 8a time to love and a time to hate,