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title: Ecclesiastes 3
slug: kjv/ecclesiastes-3
createdAt: 2024-08-21T02:14:17.336Z
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**1 **To every *thing there is* a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

**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;

**3 **A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

**4 **A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

**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;

**6 **A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

**7 **A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

**8 **A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

**9 **What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? **10 **I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

**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.

**12 **I know that *there is* no good in them, but for *a man* to rejoice, and to do good in his life. **13 **And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it *is* the gift of God. **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. **15 **That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

**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. **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. **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. **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. **20 **All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. **21 **Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? **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?