Ecclesiastes 3

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

For, every thing, there is a season, —and a time for every pursuit, 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 be born, and a time to die, —A time to plant, and a time to uproot 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 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 wail, and a time to dance for joy;

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 loving embrace;

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 give up as lost, —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 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 profit hath he that worketh, in that wherein, himself, hath toiled?

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

I looked at the employment which God hath given to the sons of men, to work therein:

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.

Everything, hath he made beautiful in its own time, —also, intelligence, hath he put in their heart, without which men could not find out the work which God hath wrought, from the beginning even unto 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 no blessedness in them, —save to be glad, and to do well with one’s 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.

Though indeed, that any man should eat and drink, and see blessedness, in all his toil, it 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, the same, shall be age-abiding, unto it, there is nothing to add, and, from it, there is nothing to take away, —and, God, hath done it, that men should stand in awe 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 was, already, had been, and, that which shall be, already, shall have been, —but, God, seeketh that which hath been chased 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.

Then, again, I saw under the sun, the place of justice, that there was lawlessness, and, the place of righteousness, that there was lawlessness.

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.

Said, I, in my heart, Both the righteous and the lawless, will God judge, —for [there will be] a time for every pursuit, and concerning 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.

Said, I, in my heart, as concerning the sons of men, That God was minded to prove them, —and that they might see, that they were beasts, of themselves.

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, as regardeth the destiny of the sons of men and the destiny of beasts, one fate, have they, as dieth the one, so, dieth the other, and, one spirit, have they all, —and, the pre-eminence of man over beast, is nothing, for, all, were 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, came from the dust, and all, return 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 knoweth the spirit of the sons of men, whether it, ascendeth, above, —or the spirit of the beast, whether it, descendeth, 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.

So I saw, that there was nothing better than that a man should be glad in his works, for, that, is his portion, —for who can bring him in, to look upon that which shall be after him?