1By the necessary change of times vanity is added to human travail. 11There is a fitness in God's works, which man cannot thoroughly find out. 12, 22Man's object is to enjoy present good, so far as God alloweth, whose counsels are immutable. 16From the abuses of human judgments God's judgment is inferred. 18Men and beasts are visibly alike in their mortal bodies; 21their spirits, which go different ways, are unknown.
1TO aevery thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
a v.17. ch. 8.6; 7.14.
2bA time 1to be born, and a time to die; ca time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
1Heb. to bear.
b Ga. 4.4. Job 14.5. Jn. 7.30; 8.20; 13.1; 16.21. He. 9.27. c Is. 5.2,5. Je. 18.7-9; 1.10. 1Co. 3.8.
3dA time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to ebreak down, and a time to build up;
d Ex. 21.13. Is. 38.21. De. 32.39. Ho. 6.1,2. e Is. 5.2,5,6. Je. 18.7-9.
4fA time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
f Ro. 12.15. Mat. 9.15. Re. 19.1. Ps. 30.5; 126.5,6; 150.4. Jn. 16.19,20.
5gA time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; ha time to embrace, and a time 2to refrain from embracing;
2Heb. to be far from.
g v.2,3. h Ex. 19.15. Joel 2.16. .Co. 7.3-5. Ca. 2.6,9.
6A time to 3get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and ia time to cast away;
3Or, seek.
i Jonah 1.5. ch. 11.1. Ac. 27.18,19. Mat. 10.37. He. 10.34. Ps. 112.9.
7jA time to rend, and a time to sew; ka time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
j Ge. 37.29,34; 44.13. Ac. 9.39. k Job 2.13. Ps. 39.1,9. Am. 5.10,13. Pr. 17.28. Is. 58.1. Job 32.4.
8lA time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
l Ex. 20.12. Lu. 14.20,26. Ps. 139.21. Re. 2.2.
9What mprofit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
m Mat. 6.27; 16.26. ch. 1.3; 2.11,22. Ps. 127.2.
10nI have seen the *travail, which oGod hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
*travail-distress, trouble.
n Ps. 111.2. ch. 1.13,14. o Ge. 3.17-19.
11pHe hath made every thing qbeautiful in his time: ralso he hath set the world in their heart, so that sno man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
p Mar. 7.37. De. 32.4. q Ge. 1.31. r Ps. 19.1-6. Ro. 1.19,20; 2.15. s Job 11.7,8. Ro. 11.33. ch. 8.17. Ps. 104.24; 40.5.
12I tknow that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and uto do good in his life.
t Phi. 4.4,5. ch. 2.24; 9.7-9. 1Co. 15.58; 10.31. Ga. 6.9,10. Lu. 1.75. u Ps. 34.14; 37.3.
13And valso that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, wit is the gift of God.
v ch. 2.24; 7.9. Ps. 128.2; 6.2. w ch. 5.19; 9.9.
14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, xit shall be for ever: ynothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it , zthat men should fear before him.
x Ja. 1.17. Ro. 11.36. Ps. 119.90,91. ch. 1.4. Je. 31.35,36; 33.20,21. y Pr. 30.6. Is. 10.5,15. Jn. 19.10,11. z Is. 59.18,19. Ps. 64.9. He. 12.28,29. Re. 15.4. ch. 12.13.
15That awhich hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God brequireth 4that which is past.
4Heb. that which is driven away.
a ch. 1.9. v.14. b ch. 12.14.
16¶And moreover cI saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
c ch. 5.8. Je. 5.1,2. Ps. 58.2; 82.2. ch. 5.18. Is. 1.21-23; 59.14. Mi. 2.2; 7.3. Zep. 3.3.
17I said in mine heart, dGod shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is ea time there for every purpose and for every work.
d 1Co. 4.5. ch. 12.14. 2Co. 5.10. Ac. 17.31. Re. 20.12. Mat. 25. Jude 14,15. Ro. 2.6-8. 1Th. 1.6-10. e v.1.
18I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, 5that God might manifest them, and that they might see that fthey themselves are beasts.
5Or, that they might clear God, and see. Ps. 51.4. Ro. 3.4.
f Ps. 32.9; 49.12,20; 73.21,22. Pr. 30.2,3. Job 11.12. Is. 1.3. Je. 8.7. 2Pe. 2.12. Jude 10.
19gFor that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
g Ps. 49.12,14,20; 73.22. ch. 2.16. Ge. 7.21,22.
20hAll go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
h Ps. 89.48; 49.10. Ge. 3.19. ch. 12.7. Job 30.23; 1.21. Ps. 104.29. Lu. 16.22,23. Phi. 1.23.
21Who knoweth 6the spirit of man that 7goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
6Heb. of the sons of man.
7Heb. is ascending, ch. 12.7.
22Wherefore iI perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for jwho shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
i ch. 2.24; 3.12,13; 5.18; 8.15; 9.7. j Job 14.21. Is. 63.16. ch. 6.12; 9.12; 8.7; 10.14.