3Ecclesiastes 3

1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:Select Ecclesiastes 3:1

2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;Select Ecclesiastes 3:2

3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;Select Ecclesiastes 3:3

4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;Select Ecclesiastes 3:4

5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;Select Ecclesiastes 3:5

6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;Select Ecclesiastes 3:6

7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;Select Ecclesiastes 3:7

8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.Select Ecclesiastes 3:8

9What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors?Select Ecclesiastes 3:9

10I have seen the travail, which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.Select Ecclesiastes 3:10

11He has made every thing beautiful in his time: also he has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.Select Ecclesiastes 3:11

12I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.Select Ecclesiastes 3:12

13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.Select Ecclesiastes 3:13

14I know that, whatever God does, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.Select Ecclesiastes 3:14

15That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires that which is past. ¶Select Ecclesiastes 3:15

16And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.Select Ecclesiastes 3:16

17I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.Select Ecclesiastes 3:17

18I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.Select Ecclesiastes 3:18

19For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yes, they have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.Select Ecclesiastes 3:19

20All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.Select Ecclesiastes 3:20

21Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?Select Ecclesiastes 3:21

22Why 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?Select Ecclesiastes 3:22