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3:1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 3:2 a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what 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 for war, and a time for peace. 3:9 What gain has the worker from his toil? 3:10 I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with. 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time;also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 3:12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; 3:13 also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil. 3:14 I know that whatever God does endures for ever;nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it;God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him. 3:15 That which is, already has been;that which is to be, already has been;and God seeks what has been driven away. 3:16 Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness. 3:17 I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work. 3:18 I said in my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they are but beasts. 3:19 For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same;as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts;for all is vanity. 3:20 All go to one place;all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. 3:21 Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth? 3:22 So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should enjoy his work, for that is his lot;who can bring him to see what will be after him?