Ecclesiastes 3

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

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

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 pluck up that which 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 mourn, and a time to dance;

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 gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

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 lose; 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 keep silence, 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 for war, and a time for peace.

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

What profit hath he that worketh in that he laboureth?

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 task which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

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.

He hath made every thing beautiful in its time; also He hath set the world in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to 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 nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to get pleasure so long as they live.

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.

But also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy pleasure for all his labour, 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, it shall be for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it; and God hath so made it, that men should fear 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 is hath been long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God seeketh that which is pursued.

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

And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

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.

I said in my heart: 'The righteous and the wicked God will judge; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.'

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.

I said in my heart: 'It is because of the sons of men, that God may sift them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.'

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 that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that man hath no pre-eminence above a beast; for all is 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 are of the dust, and all return to 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 man whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast whether it goeth downward 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.

Wherefore I perceived that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?