Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3:
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Verses from Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3 of the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible.
Everything has its own time
- 1. To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven:
- 2. 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 tear 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;
- 5. A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather them together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain;
- 6. a time to seek and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away;
- 7. a time to tear, 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 for war and a time for peace.
- 9. What does the worker gain from his effort?
- 10. I have seen the burden that God has laid on men.
- 11. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet man cannot fully comprehend what God has accomplished from beginning to end.
- 12. I realized that there is nothing better for a human being than to rejoice and do good while he lives.
- 13. I also saw that all effort and skill in work comes from competition. This too is fleeting, a passing breath.
- 14. I know that whatever God does will remain forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing can be taken away from it. God works this way so that people will fear him.
- 15. What is, has already been, and what will be, has already been; God will seek out what has been.
- 16. Moreover I have seen under the sun, that instead of righteousness there was wickedness; and instead of righteousness there was wickedness.
- 17 Then I said to myself, “God will judge both the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every purpose and for every work.”
- 18. Then I thought, “God tests the sons of men to see that they are like animals.
- 19. For the fate of the sons of men is the same fate as that of the beasts; one fate awaits them: as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath; man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.
- 20. All go to the same place; all come from the dust, and to the dust all return.
- 21. Who can tell whether the spirit of the sons of men ascends upward, or whether the spirit of the beast descends to the earth?
- 22. Therefore I concluded that there is nothing better for a man than to rejoice in his work, because that is his reward. For who will show him what will happen after death?