#### Ecclesiastes 3

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} {21} {22}

^ Ec 3.1: To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
^ Ec 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;
^ Ec 3.3: A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
^ Ec 3.4: A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
^ Ec 3.5: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
^ Ec 3.6: A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
^ Ec 3.7: A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
^ Ec 3.8: A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
^ Ec 3.9: What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
^ Ec 3.10: I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
^ Ec 3.11: He hath made every [thing] beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
^ Ec 3.12: I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
^ Ec 3.13: And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.
^ Ec 3.14: I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.
^ Ec 3.15: That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
^ Ec 3.16: And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, [that] wickedness [was] there; and the place of righteousness, [that] iniquity [was] there.
^ Ec 3.17: I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for [there is] a time there for every purpose and for every work.
^ Ec 3.18: I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
^ Ec 3.19: 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; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.
^ Ec 3.20: All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
^ Ec 3.21: Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
^ Ec 3.22: Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?