Ecclesiastes 3:1-13 ▼

1 Euery thyng hath a tyme, yea all that is vnder the heaue hath his conuenient season.

2 There is a tyme to be borne, and a tyme to dye: there is a tyme to plant, and a tyme to plucke vp the thyng that is planted.

3 A tyme to slay, and a tyme to make whole: a tyme to breake downe, and a tyme to builde vp.

4 A tyme to weepe, and a tyme to laugh: a tyme to mourne, & a tyme to daunce.

5 A tyme to cast away stones, and a tyme to gather stones together: A tyme to imbrace, and a tyme to refrayne from imbracyng.

6 A tyme to wynne, and a tyme to lose: A tyme to spare, and a tyme to spende.

7 A tyme to cut in peeces, and a tyme to sowe together: A tyme to kepe scilence, and a tyme to speake.

8 A tyme to loue, and a tyme to hate: A tyme of warre, and a tyme of peace.

9 What hath a man els that doth any thyng, but weerinesse and labour?

10 For as touchyng the trauayle and carefulnesse which God hath geuen vnto men, I see that he hath geuen it them to be exercised in it.

11 All this hath he ordeyned marueilous goodly, to euery thyng his due tyme: He hath planted ignoraunce also in the heartes of men, that they shoulde not comprehende the ground of his workes which he doth from the begynnyng to the ende.

12 So I perceaued that in those thinges there is nothyng better for a man then to be mery, and to do well as long as he lyueth.

13 For all that a man eateth & drynketh, yea whatsoeuer a man enioyeth of all his labour: that same is a gyft of God.