Ecclesiastes 3:1
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 when he was in distress, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Proverbs 24:27Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house.
Ecclesiastes 2:3I searched in my heart how to pamper my flesh with wine, and, my heart conducting itself with wisdom, how yet to lay hold on folly, till I might see which it was best for the sons of men that they should do under the heaven the few days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 3:17I said in my heart: 'The righteous and the wicked God will judge; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.'
Ecclesiastes 8:5Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man's heart discerneth time and judgment.
Jeremiah 46:17They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass 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 →