EC-3:1  To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under

the heaven:

EC-3:2  A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to

pluck up [that which is] planted;

EC-3:3  A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time

to build up;

EC-3:4  A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to

dance;

EC-3:5  A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a

time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

EC-3:6  A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast

away;

EC-3:7  A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time

to speak;

EC-3:8  A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of

peace.

EC-3:9  What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

EC-3:10  I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to

be exercised in it.

EC-3:11  He hath made every [thing] beautiful in his time: also he hath set

the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh

from the beginning to the end.

EC-3:12  I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice,

and to do good in his life.

EC-3:13  And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of

all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.

EC-3:14  I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can

be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth [it], that [men]

should fear before him.

EC-3:15  That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already

been; and God requireth that which is past.

EC-3:16  And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, [that]

wickedness [was] there; and the place of righteousness, [that] iniquity [was]

there.

EC-3:17  I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked:

for [there is] a time there for every purpose and for every work.

EC-3:18  I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that

God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are

beasts.

EC-3:19  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 a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is]

vanity.

EC-3:20  All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust

again.

EC-3:21  Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of

the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

EC-3:22  Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man

should rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall

bring him to see what shall be after him?

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