Ecclesiastes 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

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

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

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

a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

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

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

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

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?

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

I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

11 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.

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

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

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

13 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.

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

14 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.

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done it, that men should fear before him.

15 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.

That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away.

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

And 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.

17 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.

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.

18 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.

I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are [but as] beasts.

19 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.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

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

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

21 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.

Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?

22 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.

Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?