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Ecclesiastes 3 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Ecc 3:1

Ecc 3:1For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

Ecc 3:2

Ecc 3:2a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

Ecc 3:3

Ecc 3:3a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Ecc 3:4

Ecc 3:4a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Ecc 3:5

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

Ecc 3:6

Ecc 3:6a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Ecc 3:7

Ecc 3:7a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Ecc 3:8

Ecc 3:8a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecc 3:9

Ecc 3:9What gain has the worker from his toil?

Ecc 3:10

Ecc 3:10I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.

God Set Eternity in the Heart of Man

Ecc 3:11

Ecc 3:11He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecc 3:12

Ecc 3:12I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;

Ecc 3:13

Ecc 3:13also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

Ecc 3:14

Ecc 3:14I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him.

Ecc 3:15

Ecc 3:15That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

Ecc 3:16

Ecc 3:16Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

Ecc 3:17

Ecc 3:17I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.

Ecc 3:18

Ecc 3:18I said in my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they are but beasts.

Ecc 3:19

Ecc 3:19For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity.

Ecc 3:20

Ecc 3:20All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Ecc 3:21

Ecc 3:21Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth?

Ecc 3:22

Ecc 3:22So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should enjoy his work, for that is his lot; who can bring him to see what will be after him?
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