Ecc Ecclesiastes, chapter Ecclesiastes, chapter 3
To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:Luk 9:21; 1Co 6:12
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up [that which is] planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;Jer 31:4
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend (tear apart; forcefully rip apart), and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;Luk 9:21
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
What profit has he that works in that wherein he laboureth?
I have seen the travail, which God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
He 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-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] makes from the beginning to the end.
I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.Ecc 2:24; Ecc 8:15
And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].Ecc 5:19
I know that, whatsoever God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] does, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] does [it], that [men] should fear before him.Dan 4:35
That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] requires that which is past.Ecc 1:9
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, [that] wickedness [was] there; and the place of righteousness, [that] iniquity [was] there.
I said in my heart, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for [there is] a time there for every purpose and for every work.Ecc 12:14
I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
For 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.Psa 49:12; 1Pe 3:12
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.Gen 3:19; Psa 146:4; Ecc 12:7
Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?
For what reason 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?Ecc 3:12; Ecc 5:19