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Ecclesiastes 3

The Message Bible MSG

1 There's an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:

2 A right time for birth and another for death, A right time to plant and another to reap,

3 A right time to kill and another to heal, A right time to destroy and another to construct,

4 A right time to cry and another to laugh, A right time to lament and another to cheer,

5 A right time to make love and another to abstain, A right time to embrace and another to part,

6 A right time to search and another to count your losses, A right time to hold on and another to let go,

7 A right time to rip out and another to mend, A right time to shut up and another to speak up,

8 A right time to love and another to hate, A right time to wage war and another to make peace.

9 But in the end, does it really make a difference what anyone does?

10 I've had a good look at what God has given us to do - busywork, mostly.

11 True, God made everything beautiful in itself and in its time - but he's left us in the dark, so we can never know what God is up to, whether he's coming or going.

12 I've decided that there's nothing better to do than go ahead and have a good time and get the most we can out of life.

13 That's it - eat, drink, and make the most of your job. It's God's gift.

14 I've also concluded that whatever God does, that's the way it's going to be, always. No addition, no subtraction. God's done it and that's it. That's so we'll quit asking questions and simply worship in holy fear.

15 Whatever was, is. Whatever will be, is. That's how it always is with God.

16 I took another good look at what's going on: The very place of judgment - corrupt!

17 The place of righteousness - corrupt! I said to myself, "God will judge righteous and wicked." There's a right time for every thing, every deed - and there's no getting around it.

18 I said to myself regarding the human race, "God's testing the lot of us, showing us up as nothing but animals."

19 Humans and animals come to the same end - humans die, animals die. We all breathe the same air. So there's really no advantage in being human. None. Everything's smoke.

20 We all end up in the same place - we all came from dust, we all end up as dust.

21 Nobody knows for sure that the human spirit rises to heaven or that the animal spirit sinks into the earth.

22 So I made up my mind that there's nothing better for us men and women than to have a good time in whatever we do - that's our lot. Who knows if there's anything else to life?

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 omnia tempus habent et suis spatiis transeunt universa sub caelo

2 tempus nascendi et tempus moriendi tempus plantandi et tempus evellendi quod plantatum est

3 tempus occidendi et tempus sanandi tempus destruendi et tempus aedificandi

4 tempus flendi et tempus ridendi tempus plangendi et tempus saltandi

5 tempus spargendi lapides et tempus colligendi tempus amplexandi et tempus longe fieri a conplexibus

6 tempus adquirendi et tempus perdendi tempus custodiendi et tempus abiciendi

7 tempus scindendi et tempus consuendi tempus tacendi et tempus loquendi

8 tempus dilectionis et tempus odii tempus belli et tempus pacis

9 quid habet amplius homo de labore suo

10 vidi adflictionem quam dedit Deus filiis hominum ut distendantur in ea

11 cuncta fecit bona in tempore suo et mundum tradidit disputationi eorum ut non inveniat homo opus quod operatus est Deus ab initio usque ad finem

12 et cognovi quod non esset melius nisi laetari et facere bene in vita sua

13 omnis enim homo qui comedit et bibit et videt bonum de labore suo hoc donum Dei est

14 didici quod omnia opera quae fecit Deus perseverent in perpetuum non possumus eis quicquam addere nec auferre quae fecit Deus ut timeatur

15 quod factum est ipsum permanet quae futura sunt iam fuerunt et Deus instaurat quod abiit

16 vidi sub sole in loco iudicii impietatem et in loco iustitiae iniquitatem

17 et dixi in corde meo iustum et impium iudicabit Deus et tempus omni rei tunc erit

18 dixi in corde meo de filiis hominum ut probaret eos Deus et ostenderet similes esse bestiis

19 idcirco unus interitus est hominis et iumentorum et aequa utriusque condicio sicut moritur homo sic et illa moriuntur similiter spirant omnia et nihil habet homo iumento amplius cuncta subiacent vanitati

20 et omnia pergunt ad unum locum de terra facta sunt et in terram pariter revertentur

21 quis novit si spiritus filiorum Adam ascendat sursum et si spiritus iumentorum descendat deorsum

22 et deprehendi nihil esse melius quam laetari hominem in opere suo et hanc esse partem illius quis enim eum adducet ut post se futura cognoscat