Ecclesiastes 3:1
To everything — a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:
Young's Literal Translation
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 bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:12And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers,
Proverbs 24:27Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field — go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy 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 till that I see where [is] this — 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 doth God judge, for a time [is] to every matter and for every work there.'
Ecclesiastes 8:5Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth.
Jeremiah 46:17They have cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt [is] a desolation, Passed by hath the appointed time.
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 →