Jubilee2000 - Ecclesiastes - 3

3:1  For all things [there is] a season, and every will under the heaven [has its] time [determined].

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;

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 of war, and a time of peace.

3:9  What profit does the one that works have in that in which he labours?

3:10  I have seen the travail which God has given to the sons of men that they may be occupied in it.

3:11  He has made every [thing] beautiful in his time: even the world he has given over to their will, [in such a way] that no man can attain to this work that God makes from the beginning to the end.

3:12  I have learned that [there is] nothing better for them, but to rejoice and to do good in his life.

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.

3:14  I have understood that whatever God does, it shall be for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it because God does [it] that [men] should fear before him.

3:15  That which has been is now, and that which is to be has already been and God shall seek that which is past.

3:16  And moreover I saw under the sun [that] instead of judgment, there [was] wickedness; and instead of righteousness, [that] iniquity [was] there.

3:17  I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked; for [there is] a time determined [to judge] every will and regarding everything that is done.

3:18  I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men that God might manifest them and that they might see that they themselves [are] beasts one to another.

3:19  For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; and they all have one breath; so that a man has no more [breath] than a beast: for all [is] vanity.

3:20  All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all shall turn to dust again.

3:21  Who knows that the spirit of the sons of men goes upward and that the spirit of the beast goes downward to the earth?

3:22  Therefore 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?: