Parallel Bible results for "ecclesiastes 3:1-15"

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha CEBA

1 There's a season for everything and a time for every matter under the heavens:

2 a time for giving birth and a time for dying, a time for planting and a time for uprooting what was planted,

3 a time for killing and a time for healing, a time for tearing down and a time for building up,

4 a time for crying and a time for laughing, a time for mourning and a time for dancing,

5 a time for throwing stones and a time for gathering stones, a time for embracing and a time for avoiding embraces,

6 a time for searching and a time for losing, a time for keeping and a time for throwing away,

7 a time for tearing and a time for repairing, a time for keeping silent and a time for speaking,

8 a time for loving and a time for hating, a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do workers gain from all their hard work?

10 I have observed the task that God has given human beings.

11 God has made everything fitting in its time, but has also placed eternity in their hearts, without enabling them to discover what God has done from beginning to end.

12 I know that there's nothing better for them but to enjoy themselves and do what's good while they live.

13 Moreover, this is the gift of God: that all people should eat, drink, and enjoy the results of their hard work.

14 I know that whatever God does will last forever; it's impossible to add to it or take away from it. God has done this so that people are reverent before him.

15 Whatever happens has already happened, and whatever will happen has already happened before. And God looks after what is driven away.

New International Version NIV

1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do workers gain from their toil?

10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.

13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.

14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

15 Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.