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1There is an occasion for everything,
and a time for every activity under heaven:
2a time to give birth and a time to die;[#Jb 14:5; Heb 9:27]
a time to plant and a time to uproot;
3a time to kill and a time to heal;
a time to tear down and a time to build;
4a time to weep and a time to laugh;[#Rm 12:15]
a time to mourn and a time to dance;
5a time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;[#2Kg 3:19,25; Is 5:2]
a time to embrace and a time to avoid embracing;
6a time to search and a time to count as lost;
a time to keep and a time to throw away;
7a time to tear and a time to sew;
a time to be silent and a time to speak;
8a time to love and a time to hate;
a time for war and a time for peace.
9What does the worker gain from his struggles?[#Ec 1:3]
10I have seen the task that God has given people to keep them occupied.[#Ec 1:13; 2:26]
11He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but man cannot discover the work God has done from beginning to end.[#Or beautiful; #Gn 1:31; #Or has put a sense of past and future into their minds, or has placed ignorance in their hearts; #Jb 5:9; Ec 7:23; 8:17; Rm 11:33]
12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and enjoy the good life.[#Lit his]
13It is also the gift of God whenever anyone eats, drinks, and enjoys all his efforts.[#Ec 2:24; 5:19]
14I know that all God does will last forever; there is no adding to it or taking from it. God works so that people will be in awe of Him.[#Rv 22:18-19; #Ex 7:5; Ezk 36:23]
15Whatever is, has already been, and whatever will be, already is. God repeats what has passed.[#Ec 1:9; 6:10; #Or God calls the past to account, or God seeks what is past, or God seeks the persecuted ; lit God seeks the pursued]
16I also observed under the sun: there is wickedness at the place of judgment and there is wickedness at the place of righteousness.[#Ec 4:1; 5:8; 8:9]
17I said to myself, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every work.”[#Ec 11:9; Mt 16:27; Rm 2:6-10; 2Th 1:6-9; #Ec 3:1]
18I said to myself, “This happens concerning people, so that God may test them and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.”[#Ps 49:12,20; 73:22]
19For the fate of people and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.[#Ec 9:12]
20All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.[#Gn 3:19; Ec 12:7]
21Who knows if the spirit of people rises upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?
22I have seen that there is nothing better than for a person to enjoy his activities because that is his reward. For who can enable him to see what will happen after he dies?[#Ec 2:24; #Lit after him; #Ec 2:18; 6:12; 8:7; 10:14]