The Bible

 

Ecclesiastes 3:6

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6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Commentary

 

Befall, to

  

(Genesis 42:29.) The things which befall are the things which were of providence, or which were provided, because everything which befalls, or happens, in other words what is called fortuitous, and is ascribed to chance, or to fortune, is of providence. (Arcana Coelestia 5508)