# Ecclesiastes 03 General Notes

#### Structure and formatting

Some translations set poetry farther to the right than the rest of the text to show that it is poetry. The ULB does this with the poetry in 3:1-8 and 3:15.

#### Important figures of speech in this chapter

##### Parallelism
The chapter uses parallelism with the phrase, "a time to." This gives the quotation a poetic style. Their overall purpose is to show that Yahweh directs the events of the world and therefore, they have purpose. 

## Links:

* __[Ecclesiastes 03:01 Notes](./01.md)__

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