Ecclesiastes 3:1
To everything—a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:
Literal Standard Version
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 is in distress he has appeased the face of his God YHWH, and is exceedingly humbled before the God of his fathers,
Proverbs 24:27Prepare your work in an out-place, || And make it ready in the field—go afterward, || Then you have built your house.
Ecclesiastes 2:3I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly until I see where this [is]—the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.
Ecclesiastes 3:17I said in my heart, “The righteous and the wicked God judges, for a time [is] to every matter and for every work there.”
Ecclesiastes 8:5Whoever is keeping a command knows no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knows.
Jeremiah 46:17They have cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt [is] a desolation, || The appointed time has passed 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 →