3 1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 3 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 3 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 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; 3 6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 3 7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 3 8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. 3 9 What gain has the worker from his toil?
3 10 I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with. 3 11 He 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. 3 12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; 3 13 also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil. 3 14 I 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. 3 15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.