Ecclesiastes 3

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

All things have their season, and in their times all things pass 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 destroy, 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 throw away stones and a time to gather stones a time to embrace and a time to be far from embracing.

A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.

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 get, 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 of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.

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

What hath man more of his labour?

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 trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.

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 all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.

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

And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.

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.

For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this 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 have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.

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 hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.

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

I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.

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.

And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.

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 concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like 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.

Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.

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

And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.

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 if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?

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.

And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?