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Ecclesiastes 3 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:1 - For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:2 - A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:3 - A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:4 - A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:5 - A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:6 - A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:7 - A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:8 - A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:9 - What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:10 - I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.

God Set Eternity in the Heart of Man

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:11 - He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:12 - I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:13 - And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:14 - I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:15 - Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:16 - And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:17 - I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:18 - I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19 - Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:20 - All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:21 - Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:22 - So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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Ecclesiastes Chapter 3 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras