| Eccl. 3:1 |
For everything there is a season, / And a time for every purpose under heaven: |
| Eccl. 3:2 |
A time to be born, and a time to die; / A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; |
| Eccl. 3:3 |
A time to kill, and a time to heal; / A time to tear down, and a time to build up; |
| Eccl. 3:4 |
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; / A time to mourn, and a time to dance; |
| Eccl. 3:5 |
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; / A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; |
| Eccl. 3:6 |
A time to seek, and a time to lose; / A time to keep, and a time to throw away; |
| Eccl. 3:7 |
A time to tear, and a time to sew; / A time to be silent, and a time to speak; |
| Eccl. 3:8 |
A time to love, and a time to hate; / A time for war, and a time for peace. |
| Eccl. 3:9 |
What profit does the worker have in all that he labors? |
| Eccl. 3:10 |
I have seen the travail that God has given the children of men to travail in. |
| Eccl. 3:11 |
He has made everything beautiful in its own time; also He has put eternity in their heart, yet so that man does not find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. |
| Eccl. 3:12 |
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good in their lifetime; |
| Eccl. 3:13 |
Moreover, that every man should eat and drink and taste enjoyment in all his labor; it is the gift of God. |
| Eccl. 3:14 |
I know that whatever God does, it will be forever; nothing can be added to it, nor can anything be taken from it. God has [so] done, that [all] would fear Him. |
| Eccl. 3:15 |
That which is has already been, and that which will be has already been; and God seeks what has passed. |
| Eccl. 3:16 |
Moreover I saw under the sun [that] in the place of judgment, wickedness is there; and in the place of righteousness, wickedness is there. |
| Eccl. 3:17 |
I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and every work. |
| Eccl. 3:18 |
I said in my heart, [This is so] for the sake of the children of men, that God may prove them and that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts. |
| Eccl. 3:19 |
For what happens to the children of men happens also to beasts; even the same thing happens to them [both:] As the one dies, so dies the other; and they all have one breath; and man has no advantage over the beast; for all is vanity. |
| Eccl. 3:20 |
All go to one place: all are of dust, and all return to dust. |
| Eccl. 3:21 |
Who knows the breath of the children of men, that it goes upward; or the breath of the beasts, that it goes downward to the earth? |
| Eccl. 3:22 |
Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that [a man] should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion. For who will bring him to see what will be after him? |