Ecclesiastes 3

1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

For everything an appointed time and an time for every matter under the heavens.

2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to bear a child and a time to die a time to plant and a time to pluck up [what] is planted.

3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to kill and a time to heal a time to break down and a time to build.

4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to weep and a time to laugh a time to mourn and a time to dance.

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;

A time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones a time to embrace and a time to be far from embracing.

6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to seek and a time to count as lost a time to keep and a time to throw away.

7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to tear and a time to sew a time to be silent and a time to speak.

8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

A time to love and a time to hate a time of warfare and a time of peace.

9 What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

What? [is] [the] profit of the worker in [that] which he [is] a laborer.

10 I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

I have seen the task which he has given God to [the] children of humankind to be busy with it.

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Everything he has made beautiful in time its also perpetuity he has put in heart their because not which not he will find humankind the work which he has done God from beginning and to end.

12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

I know that there not [is] good for them that except to rejoice and to do good in life his.

13 Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

And also every person that he will eat and he will drink and he will see good in all toil his [is] a gift of God it.

14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

I know that all that he does God it it will be for ever to it not to add and from it not to take away and God he has acted that people will fear from to before him.

15 That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago. God seeks again that which is passed away.

Whatever that is [has been] already it and [that] which [is] to be already it has been and God he will seek [what] was pursued.

16 Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

And again I have seen under the sun [the] place of justice [was] there wickedness and [the] place of righteousness [was] there wickedness.

17 I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

I said I in heart my the righteous and the wicked he will judge God for a time [is] for every matter and on every deed there.

18 I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

I said I in heart my on cause of [the] children of humankind to test them God and to see that they [are] animal[s] they for themselves.

19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.

For [the] fate of [the] children of humankind and [the] fate of animal[s] and fate one [belongs] to them like [the] death of this so [the] death of this and breath one [belongs] to all and [the] advantage of humankind [is] more than the animal[s] not for everything [is] futility.

20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Everything [is] going to place one everything it was from the dust and everything [is] returning to the dust.

21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

Who? [is] knowing [the] spirit of [the] children of humankind that is going up it upwards and [the] spirit of the animal[s] that is going down it downwards to the earth.

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 can bring him to see what will be after him?

And I saw that there not [is] good more than that he will be happy humankind in work his for that [is] portion his for who? will he bring him to look on whatever that will be after him.