Ecclesiastes 3:1
For every thing there is a season; and a [proper] time is for every pursuit under the heavens.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
In Context
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 without thy work, and make it fit in the field for thyself: and afterward build thy house.
Ecclesiastes 2:3I resolved in my heart to indulge my body with wine, while my heart guideth itself with wisdom; and to lay fast hold on folly, till I might see what it is that is good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heavens during the number of the days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 3:17I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time for every pursuit; and on account of every deed there [will he judge].
Ecclesiastes 8:5Whoso keepeth the commandment will experience no evil thing: and a wise man's heart knoweth both time and the just consequence.
Jeremiah 46:17They called out there, Pharaoh is king of Egypt, it was but vaunting, he hath let the time appointed 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 →