Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
In Context
2A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
Proverbs 24:27Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
Ecclesiastes 2:3I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 3:17I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.
Ecclesiastes 8:5Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
Jeremiah 46:17Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:1
Solomon having shown the vanity of studies, pleasures, and business, and made it to appear that happiness is not to be found in the schools of the learned, nor in the gardens of Epicurus, nor upon the exchange, he proceeds, in this chapter, further to prove his doctrine, and the inference he had drawn from it, That therefore we should cheerfully content ourselves with, and make use of, what God has given us, by showing, I. The mutability of all human affairs, ver. 1-10 . II. The immutability of the divine counsels… Read the whole commentary →