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Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3

¹ There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every^a Lit delightevent under heaven—	1 Ecc 3:17 Ecc 8:6
² A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.	2 Job 14:5 Heb 9:27
³ A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up.	3 Gen 9:6 Sa1 2:6 Hos 6:1 Hos 6:2
⁴ A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance.	4 Rom 12:15 Psa 126:2 Exo 15:20
⁵ A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
⁶ A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away.
⁷ A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak.	7 Amo 5:13
⁸ A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.	8 Psa 101:3 Pro 13:5
⁹ What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? ¹⁰ I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.	9 Ecc 1:3 Ecc 2:11 Ecc 5:16 10 Ecc 1:13 Ecc 2:26
¹¹ He has made everything^b Lit beautifulappropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart,^c Or without which manyet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.	11 Gen 1:31 Job 5:9 Ecc 7:23 Ecc 8:17 Rom 11:33
¹² I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime; ¹³ moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor—it is the gift of God. ¹⁴ I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should^d Or be in awe before Himfear Him. ¹⁵ That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by.	12 Ecc 2:24 13 Ecc 2:24 Ecc 5:19 14 Ecc 5:7 Ecc 7:18 Ecc 8:12 Ecc 8:13 Ecc 12:13 15 Ecc 1:9 Ecc 6:10
¹⁶ Furthermore, I have seen under the sun that in the place of justice there is wickedness and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness. ¹⁷ I said^e Lit in my heartto myself, “God will judge both the righteous man and the wicked man,” for a time for every^f Or delightmatter and for every deed is there. ¹⁸ I said^g Lit in my heartto myself concerning the sons of men, “God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they are but beasts.” ¹⁹ For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts^h Lit and they have one fateis the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all isⁱ Or futilityvanity. ²⁰ All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust. ²¹ Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth? ²² I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot. For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?	16 Ecc 4:1 Ecc 5:8 Ecc 8:9 17 Gen 18:25 Psa 96:13 Psa 98:9 Ecc 11:9 Mat 16:27 Rom 2:6-10 Th2 1:6-9 Ecc 3:1 Ecc 8:6 18 Psa 49:12 Psa 49:20 Psa 73:22 19 Psa 49:12 Ecc 9:12 20 Gen 3:19 Psa 103:14 Ecc 12:7 21 Ecc 12:7 22 Ecc 2:24 Ecc 2:18 Ecc 6:12 Ecc 8:7 Ecc 10:14


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