Ecclesiastes 3:1
To all things there is a time, 1 And a season for every matter under heaven. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers;
Proverbs 24:27Prepare thy works for thy going forth, 1 And prepare thyself for the field; 1 And come after me, 1 And thou shalt rebuild thy house. 1
Ecclesiastes 2:3And I examined whether my heart 1 Would excite my flesh as with wine 1 (Though my heart guided me in wisdom), 1 And I desired to lay hold of mirth, 1 Until I should see of what kind is the good to the sons of men, 1 Which they should do under the sun 1 All the days of their life. 1
Ecclesiastes 3:17And I said in my heart, 1 God will judge the righteous and the ungodly: 1 For there is a time there for every action 1 And for every work. 1
Ecclesiastes 8:5He that keeps the commandment shall not know an evil thing: 1 And the heart of the wise knows the time of judgment. 1
Jeremiah 46:17But I will save thee in that day, and I will by no means deliver thee into the hands of the men before whom thou art afraid.
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 →