時とき世よ時じ節せつ

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Meanings

noun

the times and circumstances; the course of events; turn of fortune

yojijukugo (four-character idiom)

A yojijukugo referring to the changing nature of the times and the situations they bring, often with a sense of fate or fortune's wheel. Literary and somewhat old-fashioned.

時とき世よ時じ節せつ、人ひとの運うん命めいは移うつり変かわるものだ。
Times and circumstances change, and so does a person's fate.
彼かれは時とき世よ時じ節せつをわきまえず、無む謀ぼうな計けい画かくを進すすめた。
He proceeded with a reckless plan, disregarding the course of events.