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| Ecclesiastes 3:1 | All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven. | For everything there is a season, and a time for very purpose under heaven: |
| Ecclesiastes 3:2 | A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted. | a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; |
| Ecclesiastes 3:3 | A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build. | a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; |
| Ecclesiastes 3:4 | A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance. | a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; |
| Ecclesiastes 3:5 | A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. | a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; |
| Ecclesiastes 3:6 | A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away. | a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; |
| Ecclesiastes 3:7 | A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak. | a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; |
| Ecclesiastes 3:8 | A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace. | a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:9 | What hath man more of his labour? | What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth? |
| Ecclesiastes 3:10 | I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it. | I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:11 | He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot flnd out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end. | He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:12 | And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life. | I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:13 | For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God. | And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:14 | I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared. | I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God hath done it, that men should fear before him. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:15 | That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past. | That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:16 | I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity. | And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:17 | And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing. | I 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. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:18 | I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts. | I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are [but as] beasts. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:19 | Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity. | For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:20 | And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together. | All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. |
| Ecclesiastes 3:21 | Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward? | Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth? |
| Ecclesiastes 3:22 | And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him? | Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him? |
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