Ecclesiastes 3

1 to/for all time and time to/for all pleasure underneath: under [the] heaven

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

2 time to/for to beget and time to/for to die time to/for to plant and time to/for to uproot to plant

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 time to/for to kill and time to/for to heal time to/for to break through and time to/for 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 time to/for to weep and time to/for to laugh time to mourn and time to skip about

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 time to/for to throw stone and time to gather stone time to/for to embrace and time to/for to remove from to embrace

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 time to/for to seek and time to/for to perish time to/for to keep: guard and time to/for to throw

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 time to/for to tear and time to/for to sew time to/for be silent and time to/for to speak: 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 time to/for to love: lover and time to/for to hate time battle and time 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? advantage [the] to make: do in/on/with in which he/she/it laborious

(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 to see: see [obj] [the] task which to give: give God to/for son: child [the] man to/for be occupied in/on/with him

I have seen the work that God has given people to do.

11 [obj] [the] all to make beautiful in/on/with time his also [obj] [the] forever: enduring to give: put in/on/with heart their from without which not to find [the] man [obj] [the] deed: work which to make: do [the] God from head: first and till 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 to know for nothing pleasant in/on/with them that if: except if: except to/for to rejoice and to/for to make: do pleasant in/on/with 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 all [the] man which/that to eat and to drink and to see: enjoy good in/on/with all trouble his gift God he/she/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 to know for all which to make: do [the] God he/she/it to be to/for forever: enduring upon him nothing to/for to add and from him nothing to/for to dimish and [the] God to make: do which/that to fear: revere from to/for face: before his

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 what? which/that to be already he/she/it and which to/for to be already to be and [the] God to seek [obj] to pursue

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 still to see: see underneath: under [the] sun place [the] justice there [to] [the] wickedness and place [the] righteousness there [to] [the] 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 to say I in/on/with heart my [obj] [the] righteous and [obj] [the] wicked to judge [the] God for time to/for all pleasure and upon all [the] 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 to say I in/on/with heart my upon cause son: child [the] man to/for to purify them [the] God and to/for to see: see which/that they(masc.) animal they(masc.) to/for them

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 accident son: child [the] man and accident [the] animal and accident one to/for them like/as death this so death this and spirit: breath one to/for all and advantage [the] man from [the] animal nothing for [the] all vanity

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 [the] all to go: went to(wards) place one [the] all to be from [the] dust and [the] all to return: return to(wards) [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? to know spirit son: descendant/people [the] man [the] to ascend: rise he/she/it to/for above [to] and spirit [the] animal [the] to go down he/she/it to/for beneath to/for land: soil

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 to see: see for nothing pleasant from whence to rejoice [the] man in/on/with deed: work his for he/she/it portion his for who? to come (in): bring him to/for to see: see in/on/with what? which/that to 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.