Ecclesiastes 3:1
To all things there is an appointed time, and a time to euery purpose vnder the heauen.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 tribulation, he prayed to the Lord his God, and humbled him selfe greatly before the God of his fathers,
Proverbs 24:27Prepare thy worke without, and make readie thy thinges in the fielde, and after, builde thine house.
Ecclesiastes 2:3I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe to wine, and to leade mine heart in wisdome, and to take holde of follie, till I might see where is that goodnesse of the children of men, which they enioy vnder the sunne: the whole nomber of the dayes of their life.
Ecclesiastes 3:17I thought in mine heart, God wil iudge the iust and the wicked: for time is there for euery purpose and for euery worke.
Ecclesiastes 8:5He that keepeth the commandement, shall knowe none euill thing, and the heart of the wise shall knowe the time and iudgement.
Jeremiah 46:17They did cry there, Pharaoh King of Egypt, and of a great multitude hath passed the time appointed.
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 →