Ecclesiastes 3

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

For every thing there is a fixed period, and an appointed time to every thing 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 what 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 breaking 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 stones asunder, 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 of war, and a time of peace.—

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

What profit hath he who laboreth from that with which he wearieth himself?

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 business which God hath given to the sons of men to exercise themselves 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.

God maketh every thing good in its time; but he hath put the world into the heart of man, so that he understandeth not the work which God doeth, 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.

I know that there is nothing better for a man than that he should rejoice and enjoy good his life long.

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.

But when a man eateth and drinketh, and enjoyeth good through all his labor, 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 know that whatever God doeth, that shall be for ever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it; and God doeth it that men may 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, was long ago; and that which is to be, hath already been; and God recalleth 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.

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

Then said I in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked.” For there shall be a time for every matter 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 concerning the sons of men, that God will prove them, in order that they may see that they are like the 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: one lot befalleth both. As the one dieth, so dieth the other. Yea, there is one spirit in them, and a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast; 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 to one place; all are from 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 a 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.

And so I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his labors; for that is his portion. For who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?