Ecclesiastes 3:1
All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.
Proverbs 24:27Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.
Ecclesiastes 2:3I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 3:17And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.
Ecclesiastes 8:5He that keepeth the commandments shall find no evil. The heart of a wise man understandeth time and answer.
Jeremiah 46:17Call ye the name of Pharao king Egypt, a tumult time hath brought.
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 →