Wycliffe - Ecclesiastes - 3

3:1  Alle thingis han tyme, and alle thingis vndur sunne passen bi her spaces.

3:2  Tyme of birthe, and time of diyng; tyme to plaunte, and tyme to drawe vp that that is plauntid.

3:3  Tyme to sle, and tyme to make hool; tyme to distrie, and tyme to bilde.

3:4  Tyme to wepe, and tyme to leiye; tyme to biweile, and tyme to daunse.

3:5  Tyme to scatere stoonys, and tyme to gadere togidere; tyme to colle, and tyme to be fer fro collyngis.

3:6  Tyme to wynne, and tyme to leese; tyme to kepe, and tyme to caste awei.

3:7  Tyme to kitte, and tyme to sewe togidere; tyme to be stille, and tyme to speke.

3:8  Tyme of loue, and tyme of hatrede; tyme of batel, and tyme of pees.

3:9  What hath a man more of his trauel?

3:10  I siy the turment, which God yaf to the sones of men, that thei be occupied therynne.

3:11  God made alle thingis good in her tyme, and yaf the world to disputyng of hem, that a man fynde not the werk which God hath wrouyt fro the bigynnyng `til in to the ende.

3:12  And Y knew that no thing was betere `to a man, `no but to be glad, and to do good werkis in his lijf.

3:13  For whi ech man that etith and drinkith, and seeth good of his trauel; this is the yifte of God.

3:14  I haue lerned that alle werkis, whiche God made, lasten stidfastli `til in to with outen ende; we moun not adde ony thing to tho, nether take awei fro tho thingis, whiche God made, that he be dred.

3:15  That thing that is maad, dwellith perfitli; tho thingis that schulen come, weren bifore; and God restorith that, that is goon.

3:16  I siy vndur sunne vnfeithfulnesse in the place of doom; and wickidnesse in the place of riytfulnesse.

3:17  And Y seide in myn herte, The Lord schal deme a iust man, and an vnfeithful man; and the tyme of ech thing schal be thanne.

3:18  I seide in myn herte of the sones of men, that God schulde preue hem, and schewe that thei ben lijk vnresonable beestis.

3:19  Therfor oon is the perisching of man and of beestis, and euene condicioun is of euer eithir; as a man dieth, `so and tho beestis dien; alle beestis brethen in lijk maner, and a man hath no thing more than a beeste.

3:20  Alle thingis ben suget to vanyte, and alle thingis goen to o place; tho ben maad of erthe, and tho turnen ayen togidere in to erthe.

3:21  Who knowith, if the spirit of the sones of Adam stieth vpward, and if the spirit of beestis goith dounward?

3:22  And Y perseyuede that no thing is betere, than that a man be glad in his werk, and that this be his part; for who schal brynge hym, that he knowe thingis that schulen come after hym?