Ecclesiastes 3

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

To everything—a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

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 bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.

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

A time to slay, 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 skip.

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 heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far 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 destroy. 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 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 of warfare and a time of peace.

A time to love, And a time to hate. 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 advantage does the doer have in that which he is laboring at?

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 that God has given to the sons of man to be humbled by 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.

The whole He has made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He has put in their heart without which man does not find out the work that God has 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 have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their 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.

indeed, even every man who eats and has drunk and seen good by all his labor, it [is] a 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 known that all that God does is for all time, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God has worked that they 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.

What is that which has been? Already it is, and that which [is] to be has already been, and God requires that which is pursued.

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 again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment—there [is] the wicked; and the place of righteousness—there [is] the wicked.

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, “The righteous and the wicked God judges, for a time [is] to every matter and for every work there.”

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 matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves [are] 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 an event [is to] the sons of man, and an event [is to] the beasts, even one event [is] to them; as the death of this, so [is] the death of that; and one spirit [is] to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole [is] vanity.

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

The whole are going to one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back to the dust.

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 knows the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below 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.

And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it [is] his portion; for who brings him to look on that which is after him?