| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven-- |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one's lifetime; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor-- it is the gift of God. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Furthermore, I have seen under the sun that in the place of justice there is wickedness and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I said to myself, "God will judge both the righteous man and the wicked man," for a time for every matter and for every deed is there. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I said to myself concerning the sons of men, "God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they are but beasts." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot. For who will bring him to see what will occur after him? |
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