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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?