Ecclesiastes 3:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 3:17 : 17 I said in my heart, `The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time `is' to every matter and for every work there.'
  • Eccl 8:5-6 : 5 Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth. 6 For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him.
  • 2 Kgs 5:26 : 26 And he saith unto him, `My heart went not when the man turned from off his chariot to meet thee; is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olives, and vines, and flock, and herd, and men-servants, and maid-servants?
  • Eccl 2:3 : 3 I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.
  • 2 Chr 33:12 : 12 And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers,
  • Prov 15:23 : 23 Joy `is' to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season -- how good!
  • Matt 16:3 : 3 and at morning, Foul weather to-day, for the heaven is red -- gloomy; hypocrites, the face of the heavens indeed ye do know to discern, but the signs of the times ye are not able!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 3:2-20
    19 verses
    88%

    2 A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.

    3 A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up.

    4 A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.

    5 A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing.

    6 A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.

    7 A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.

    8 A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.

    9 What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

    10 I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

    11 The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

    12 I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

    13 yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it `is' a gift of God.

    14 I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.

    15 What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which `is' to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

    16 And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there `is' the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there `is' the wicked.

    17 I said in my heart, `The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time `is' to every matter and for every work there.'

    18 I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves `are' beasts.

    19 For an event `is to' the sons of man, and an event `is to' the beasts, even one event `is' to them; as the death of this, so `is' the death of that; and one spirit `is' to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole `is' vanity.

    20 The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

  • Eccl 8:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5 Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth.

    6 For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him.

  • Eccl 1:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 What `is' that which hath been? it `is' that which is, and what `is' that which hath been done? it `is' that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.

    10 There is a thing of which `one' saith: `See this, it `is' new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!

  • Eccl 1:1-5
    5 verses
    75%

    1 Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:

    2 Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.

    3 What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

    4 A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.

    5 Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.

  • Eccl 8:9
    74%

    9 All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

  • Eccl 3:22
    73%

    22 And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

  • Eccl 9:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

    2 The whole `is' as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as `is' the good, so `is' the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath.

    3 This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.

  • Eccl 1:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

    14 I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!

  • Eccl 7:14
    72%

    14 In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

  • Eccl 9:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10 All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

    11 I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift `is' the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

  • Eccl 12:8
    71%

    8 Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 8:14
    70%

    14 There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 6:12
    70%

    12 For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 6:1
    70%

    1 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it `is' great on man:

  • Job 7:1
    70%

    1 Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

  • Eccl 9:13
    69%

    13 This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.

  • Eccl 11:9
    69%

    9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

  • Eccl 2:11
    69%

    11 and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

  • Eccl 4:3
    69%

    3 And better than both of them `is' he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:24
    69%

    24 There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it `is' from the hand of God.

  • Eccl 5:18
    69%

    18 Lo, that which I have seen: `It is' good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it `is' his portion.

  • Eccl 2:1
    69%

    1 I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.