Ecclesiastes/Qohelet 3

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven.	1 There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens.
2 A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.	2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.	3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build.
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.	4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
5 A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.	5 A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
6 A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.	6 A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away.
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.	7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak.
8 A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.	8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What hath man more of his labour?	9 What advantage has the worker from his toil?
10 I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.	10 I have considered the task which God has appointed for men to be busied about.
11 He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot flnd out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.	11 He has made everything appropriate to its time, and has put the timeless into their hearts, without men's ever discovering, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.
12 And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.	12 I recognized that there is nothing better than to be glad and to do well during life.
13 For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.	13 For every man, moreover, to eat and drink and enjoy the fruit of all his labor is a gift of God.
14 I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.	14 I recognized that whatever God does will endure forever; there is no adding to it, or taking from it. Thus has God done that he may be revered.
15 That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.	15 What now is has already been; what is to be, already is; and God restores what would otherwise be displaced.
16 I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.	16 And still under the sun in the judgment place I saw wickedness, and in the seat of justice, iniquity.
17 And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.	17 And I said to myself, both the just and the wicked God will judge, since there is a time for every affair and on every work a judgment.
18 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.	18 I said to myself: As for the children of men, it is God's way of testing them and of showing that they are in themselves like beasts.
19 Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.	19 For the lot of man and of beast is one lot; the one dies as well as the other. Both have the same life-breath, and man has no advantage over the beast; but all is vanity.
20 And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.	20 Both go to the same place; both were made from the dust, and to the dust they both return.
21 Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?	21 Who knows if the life-breath of the children of men goes upward and the life-breath of beasts goes earthward?
22 And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?	22 And I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to rejoice in his work; for this is his lot. Who will let him see what is to come after him?