3:1   An appointed time exists for everything. And a time exists for every event under heaven--

3:2  A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what we have planted.

3:3  A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear 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 throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.

3:6  A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away.

3:7  A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to keep silent and a time to speak.

3:8  A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

3:9   What profit does a worker have from that in which he toils?

3:10  I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.

3:11  He has made everything appropriate in its time He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

3:12  I know that they can find nothing better than to rejoice and to do good in one's lifetime;

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3:14   I know that everything God does will remain forever; one can add nothing to it and one can take nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him.

3:15  That which has existed already and that which will occur has already existed, for God seeks what has passed by.

3:16  Furthermore, I have seen under the sun that in the place of justice there wickedness takes place and in the place of righteousness wickedness exists.

3:17  I said to myself, " God will judge both the righteous man and the wicked man," for a time for every matter and for every deed He has seen.

3:18  I said to myself concerning the sons of men, "God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they resemble beasts."

3:19   For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts has the same conclusion. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and a man has no advantage over the beast, for all seems vanity.

3:20  All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

3:21  Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?

3:22  I have seen that nothing seems better than that man should have happiness in his activities, for that becomes his lot For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?