Ecclesiastes 3:2
 Ecclesiastes 3:2 
New International Version (© 2011)
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

King James Bible
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

American Standard Version
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

Young's Literal Translation
A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.

Ecclesiastes 3:2 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

A time to be born, and a time to die - plant -

"As in its mother's womb the embryo lies

A space determined; to full growth arrived,

From its dark prison bursts, and sees the light;

So is the period fix'd when man shall drop

Into the grave - A time there is to plant,

And sow; another time to pluck and reap.

Even nations have their destined rise and fall:

Awhile they thrive; and for destruction ripe,

When grown, are rooted up like wither'd plants."

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

time to be born

Genesis 17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear to you at this set time in the next year.

Genesis 21:1,2 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken...

1 Samuel 2:5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren has born seven...

1 Kings 13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus said the LORD; Behold...

2 Kings 4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, you shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord...

Psalm 113:9 He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise you the LORD.

Isaiah 54:1 Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child...

Luke 1:13,20,36 But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias: for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elisabeth shall bear you a son...

John 16:21 A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child...

Acts 7:17,20 But when the time of the promise drew near, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt...

Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

and a time

Genesis 47:29 And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found grace in your sight...

Numbers 20:24-28 Aaron shall be gathered to his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel...

Numbers 27:12-14 And the LORD said to Moses, Get you up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel...

Deuteronomy 3:23-26 And I sought the LORD at that time, saying...

Deuteronomy 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

Job 7:1 Is there not an appointed time to man on earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

Job 14:5,14 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass...

Isaiah 38:1,5 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus said the LORD...

Jeremiah 1:10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down...

Jeremiah 18:7-10 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it...

Jeremiah 45:4 Thus shall you say to him, The LORD said thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down...

Matthew 13:28,29,41 He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Will you then that we go and gather them up...

Matthew 15:13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.

Ecclesiastes 3:2 Parallel Commentaries
Birth Born Death Die Forth Plant Planted Planting Pluck Time Uproot Uprooting
Birth Born Death Die Forth Plant Planted Planting Pluck Time Uproot Uprooting
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Hebrews 9:27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,
Job 14:5 A person's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.