ECCLESIASTES 3:1-17 TIME!

ECCLESIASTES 3:1-17

TIME!

1-There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under heaven:

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,

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 does the worker gain from the toil?

10-I have seen the burden God has laid on men.

11-He has made everything beautiful in its time.

he also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they

can not fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

12-I know that there is nouthing better for men than to be

happy and to do good while they live.

13-That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction

in all his toil this is the gift of God.

14-I know that everthing God does will endure forever;

nouthing can be added to it and nouthing taken from it.

God does it so that men will revere him.

15-Whatever is has already been,

and what will be has been before;

and God will call past to account.

16-And I saw something else under the sun:

In the place of judgment wickedness was there,

in the place of justice wickedness was there.

17-I thought in my heart,

" God will bring judgment

both the righteous and the wicked,

for there will be a time for ever activity,

a time for every deed."