Ecclesiastes 3

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

There is a right/correct time for everything, a time for everything that we do in this world.

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.

There is a time to be born, and there is a time to die. There is a time to plant [seeds], and there is a time to harvest crops.

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

There is a time to kill [people], and there is a time to heal [people]. There is a time to tear things down, and there is a time to build things.

4 A time to weep and a time to laugh a time to mourn and a time to dance.

There is a time to cry, and there is a time to laugh. There is a time to mourn, and there is a time to dance [joyfully].

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.

There is a time to throw away stones [from a field], and there is a time to gather stones [to build walls/houses]. There is a time to embrace [people], and there is a time to not embrace [people].

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

There is a time to search for things, and there is a time to stop searching for things. There is a time to keep/save things, and there is a time to throw things away.

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

There is a time to tear [our old clothes], and there is a time to mend [clothes]. There is a time to say nothing, and there is a time when we should speak.

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

There is a time when we should love [things that people do], and there is a time when we should hate [things that people do]. There is a time for war, and there is a time for peace.

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

(What do people gain from all the work that they do?/It seems that people gain very little from all the work that they do [RHQ]).

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 work that God has given people to do.

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 has appointed a time that is right/correct for everything to happen. He has [also] caused people to realize that there are things that will endure forever. But in spite of that, no one can completely understand everything that God has done, from the time that he starts doing things until he finishes them.

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

I know that the best [LIT] thing for us people to do is to rejoice and to do good things [all] during the time that we are alive.

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 I also know that everyone should eat and drink, and enjoy the work that they do. Those are things that God gives to us.

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 [also] know that what God does endures forever. No one can add to what God does, and no one can take away from the things that God does. God does those things in order that people would revere 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.

Things that exist now have already existed previously, and things that will happen in the future have already happened previously; God causes the same things to happen many times.

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

Furthermore, I saw that on this earth [MTY], even in the courts where we expect judges to make right decisions about what people had done, they did many wicked [DOU] things.

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.

[So] I said to myself [SYN], “God will judge [both] righteous [people] and wicked [people]; there is a time [for him to do that], because there is a time for him to do everything.”

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.

And regarding humans, I [also] said to myself, “God is testing us, to show us that [in one way] people are no different than animals,

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.

because what happens to people happens to animals. Animals die, and people die. We all must breathe [to remain alive]. [With regard to that], people have no advantage over animals, so I have a difficult time understanding that.

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

[People and animals] all die and are buried. We are all made of soil, and [when we die], our corpses become soil 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.

No one knows [RHQ] for sure that when we die, our souls/spirits go up to heaven and the souls/spirits of animals go down to the place where the dead are.”

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 concluded that the best thing for [us] people to do is to be happy about the work that we do, because that is what God has given to us. I say that because no one of us [RHQ] knows what happens to us after we die.