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Ecclesiastes 3 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Everything Has Its Time
Everything Has Its Time
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:1 - To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:2 - A time to be born,
And a time to die;
A time to plant,
And a time to pluck what is planted;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:3 - A time to kill,
And a time to heal;
A time to break down,
And a time to build up;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:4 - A time to weep,
And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
And a time to dance;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:5 - A time to cast away stones,
And a time to gather stones; A time to embrace,
And a time to refrain from embracing;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:6 - A time to gain,
And a time to lose;
A time to keep,
And a time to throw away;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:7 - A time to tear,
And a time to sew; A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:8 - A time to love,
And a time to hate;
A time of war,
And a time of peace.
The God-Given Task
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:9 - What profit has the worker from that in which he labors?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:10 - I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:11 - He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:12 - I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:13 - and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:14 - I know that whatever God does,
It shall be forever.
Nothing can be added to it,
And nothing taken from it.
God does it, that men should fear before Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:15 - That which is has already been,
And what is to be has already been;
And God requires an account of what is past.
Injustice Seems to Prevail
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:16 - Moreover I saw under the sun:

In the place of judgment,
Wickedness was there;
And in the place of righteousness,
Iniquity was there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:17 - I 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.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:18 - I said in my heart, “Concerning the condition of the sons of men, God tests them, that they may see that they themselves are like animals.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19 - For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:20 - All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:21 - Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:22 - So I perceived that nothing is better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his heritage. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him?
NKJV Footnotes
Septuagint, Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read Who knows whether the spirit . . . goes upward, and whether . . . goes downward to the earth?
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