Ecclesiastes 3
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Ecclesiastes

To Everything There Is a Season

1To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens:+ 2A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;+ 3A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up;+ 4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance;+ 5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;+ 6A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away;+ 7A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;+ 8A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.+

God’s Works Remain Forever

9What profit hath he that worketh from that wherein he laboureth?+ 10I have seen the travail thatGod hath given to the sons of men to toil in.+ 11He hath made everything beautiful in its time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work thatGod doeth.+ 12I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life;+ 13yea also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, it is the gift ofGod.+ 14I know that whateverGod doeth, it shall be for ever; there is nothing to be added to it, nor anything to be taken from it; andGod doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.+ 15That which is was long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; andGod bringeth back again that which is past.+

From Dust to Dust

16And moreover I saw under the sun, that in the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there.+ 17I said in my heart,God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.+ 18I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, thatGod may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts.+ 19For what befalleth the children of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other, and they have all one breath; and man hath no pre-eminence above the beast: for all is vanity.+ 20All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust.+ 21Who knoweth the spirit of the children of men? Doth it go upwards? and the spirit of the beasts, doth it go downwards to the earth?+ 22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?+

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