Ecclesiastes 3

1 Alle thingis han tyme, and alle thingis vndur sunne passen bi her spaces.

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

2 Tyme of birthe, and time of diyng; tyme to plaunte, and tyme to drawe vp that that is plauntid.

A time to bear a child and a time to die a time to plant and a time to pluck up [what] is planted.

3 Tyme to sle, and tyme to make hool; tyme to distrie, and tyme to bilde.

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

4 Tyme to wepe, and tyme to leiye; tyme to biweile, and tyme to daunse.

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

5 Tyme to scatere stoonys, and tyme to gadere togidere; tyme to colle, and tyme to be fer fro collyngis.

A time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones a time to embrace and a time to be far from embracing.

6 Tyme to wynne, and tyme to leese; tyme to kepe, and tyme to caste awei.

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

7 Tyme to kitte, and tyme to sewe togidere; tyme to be stille, and tyme to speke.

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

8 Tyme of loue, and tyme of hatrede; tyme of batel, and tyme of pees.

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

9 What hath a man more of his trauel?

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

10 I siy the turment, which God yaf to the sones of men, that thei be occupied therynne.

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

11 God made alle thingis good in her tyme, and yaf the world to disputyng of hem, that a man fynde not the werk which God hath wrouyt fro the bigynnyng `til in to the ende.

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.

12 And Y knew that no thing was betere `to a man, `no but to be glad, and to do good werkis in his lijf.

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

13 For whi ech man that etith and drinkith, and seeth good of his trauel; this is the yifte of God.

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.

14 I haue lerned that alle werkis, whiche God made, lasten stidfastli `til in to with outen ende; we moun not adde ony thing to tho, nether take awei fro tho thingis, whiche God made, that he be dred.

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.

15 That thing that is maad, dwellith perfitli; tho thingis that schulen come, weren bifore; and God restorith that, that is goon.

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.

16 I siy vndur sunne vnfeithfulnesse in the place of doom; and wickidnesse in the place of riytfulnesse.

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

17 And Y seide in myn herte, The Lord schal deme a iust man, and an vnfeithful man; and the tyme of ech thing schal be thanne.

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.

18 I seide in myn herte of the sones of men, that God schulde preue hem, and schewe that thei ben lijk vnresonable beestis.

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.

19 Therfor oon is the perisching of man and of beestis, and euene condicioun is of euer eithir; as a man dieth, `so and tho beestis dien; alle beestis brethen in lijk maner, and a man hath no thing more than a beeste.

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.

20 Alle thingis ben suget to vanyte, and alle thingis goen to o place; tho ben maad of erthe, and tho turnen ayen togidere in to erthe.

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

21 Who knowith, if the spirit of the sones of Adam stieth vpward, and if the spirit of beestis goith dounward?

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.

22 And Y perseyuede that no thing is betere, than that a man be glad in his werk, and that this be his part; for who schal brynge hym, that he knowe thingis that schulen come after hym?

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.